Archie Shepp live in concert.
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Archie Shepp

6
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jazz

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Live Rating  

78
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Critic Consensus

Based on 6 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Archie Shepp is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Archie Shepp concert reviews describe live shows and performances as powerful.

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Just at the Turn of the Tide (April 27, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
jazz
ORIGIN
Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, United States (5/24/1937)
BIO
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).
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CRITIC concert REVIEWS

The Washington Post (USA)

February 11, 2019
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Archie Shepp’s performance at the Kennedy Center was absolutely beautiful

Financial Times (UK)

November 23, 2018
80
%
Firm soprano sax and strong throaty vocals along with be-bop fusion scat, keyboard trades and hi-hat wizardry

The Guardian (UK)

November 20, 2018
80
%
Barbican, London, UK

De Morgen (Belgium)

January 12, 2018
80
%
Brussels, Belgium

Evening Standard (UK)

August 3, 2015
80
%
“A change is gonna come” he intoned in his powerful throaty voice hurling the Afrocentric lyrics of his poem Revolution at a captivated mainly white late night audience.

The Guardian (UK)

November 25, 2013
80
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Shepp's 20-plus US/French orchestra uninhibitedly revisited the Attica Blues repertoire the activist had assembled following the bloody state suppression of a protest at the mainly black Attica prison in 1971.

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