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Also known as Archie Vernon Shepp

American jazz musician

Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • In Memory of first ed last meeting

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Film & TV

Acting · Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 7 years old when his family moved to Philadelphia, in the black neighborhood of "Brick Yard". He started playing the banjo with his father, then he studied piano and saxophone at the same time as he did his secondary studies at Germantown College. He entered university, got into theatre, frequented novelists and poets like Leroy…

Known for

  • Monk & Pannonica: An American Story — Self2022
  • Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (voice) (archive sound)2022
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Self - Musician2019
  • The Sound Before the Fury — Self2014
  • Dark Gable2011
  • Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2 — Self2009
  • 24 Bars — Marcus2007
  • Scala Milan AC2005
  • Mystery Mister Ra — Self1984
  • Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie — Self1984

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183,531
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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, poet, and playwright long known for the outspoken political tones in his work. Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24th, 1937, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone). He is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late sixties which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by people of

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Key facts

Born
Archie Vernon Shepp , ( 1937-05-24 ) May 24, 1937 (age 89) , Fort Lauderdale , Florida, United States
Genres
Jazz , free jazz , avant-garde jazz
Occupations
Musician, composer, educator
Instruments
Tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone , alto saxophone , piano , vocals
Years active
1960–present
Labels
Impulse! , SteepleChase , Denon , BYG Actuel , Marge
Website
archieshepp .org

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Encyclopedic overview

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Archie Shepp” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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