I Know About The Life


Artist: Archie Shepp

Label: Sackville

Price: $16.95

Year: 1981
Format: CD

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I Know About The Life is an excellent example of Shepp's methods in this endeavor. They prove to be equally effective whether the vehicle is the jaunty "Well, You Needn't," the athletic "Giant Steps" or the alluring "'Round Midnight." On the uptempo Monk tune, Shepp veers between the bellicose and the gleeful with raspy honks, smeary bent notes, and strategically placed dips and surges in intensity. In running the daunting harmonic gauntlet of the Coltrane classic, Shepp frequently skids across the bar lines with textures that growl and chortle, while his hollers and snorts are crucial to his blistering duo exchange with John Betsch. His sighs and moans on the Monk ballad bring the piece’s sub-text of yearning into bold relief. In each case, Shepp makes the post-modernist concession that nothing is new, even as he reinvigorates decades-old aspects of the tenor tradition. — Bill Shoemaker

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Archie Shepp (tenor sax); Ken Werner (piano); Santie Debriano (double bass); John Betsch (drums)

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