| A complete long unavailable session
by the Archie Shepp Quintet recorded
in Rome on September 28, 1975 for the
legendary Italian Horo label.
This set consists of Archie Shepp’s complete session with his American
group recorded in Rome, Italy, on September 28, 1975, and issued
here on CD for the first time ever. This was the first of three sessions
recorded by Shepp for the Italian label Horo, which were subsequently
issued on the albums Jazz a Confronto #27, Body and Soul, Mariamar
and The Tradition. While the first three albums contained the results
of two sessions (those of September 28, 1975 and of
October 16, 1975), The Tradition included a single Rome session
taped on October 12, 1977. The session of September 28, 1975
yielded four titles, three by Shepp with his American group (included
here), which were originally released on Jazz a Confronto #27 (“Lybia”
and “My Heart Cries Out to Africa”) and Body and Soul (“Dogon”).
The fourth title from that session,
“Tropical”, featured Shepp with
a mixture of Brazilian and Italian
musicians plus trombonist
Charles Greenlee. As this group
would record the complete
October 16, 1975 session,
“Tropical” has been included with
that date on our companion
volume Mariamar (Atomic
Records 76810).
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