Artist: 
Archie Shepp

Kwanza

Verve By Request Vinyl
€29,99

Release date: 12 May 2023

Article Number: 500919001

These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp’s free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs including “New Africa” and “Spoo Pee Doo”.

This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.

Tracklist:

 Kwanza (1974)

A1 Back Back

A2 Spoo Pee Doo

A3 New Africa

B1 Slow Drag

B2 Bakai

Archie Schepp (tenor sax)