Archie Shepp

Release Date: 09/15/2023
Format: LP
Label: Impulse Records
Release type: Vinyl LP Pressing

This Impulse! classic is one of the saxophonist's most lasting and enduring works. With its powerful avant-garde tracks and strong political messages, the 1972 album is one of Archie Shepp's most successful large-group projects. Rolling Stone wrote that Attica Blues is "not just a masterpiece of protest, it is more a political/religious experience - an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."

1. Attica Blues
2. Invocation: Attica Blues
3. Steam (Part 1)
4. Invocation to Mr. Parker
5. Steam (Part 2)
6. Blues for Brother George Jackson
7. Invocation: Ballad for a Child
8. Ballad for a Child
9. Good Bye Sweet Pops
10. Quiet Dawn