Archie Shepp Band Geneva Concert (2015)

Archie Shepp needs no introductions he is one of the greatest African American saxophonists and one of the last living giants of 20th century jazz For some thirty years now he has divided his time between Europe and the University of Massachusetts where he teaches music history After having in the wake of Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane been one of the driving forces of New York avantgarde jazz in the 1960s Archie has traveled back to the musical roots of his people the blues Today both as an instrumentalist and singer he is one of the most irresistible interpreters of the genre In 1978 it was he who inaugurated the big stage of the New Morning in Geneva at exactly the place where we taped him in August 1994 with the late master pianist Horace Parlan Wayne Dockery and Steve McCraven