Archie Shepp
Also known as Archie Vernon Shepp
American jazz musician
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- In Memory of first ed last meeting
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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…
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- 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
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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.
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