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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by Archie Shepp Archie Shepp Archie Shepp in Warsaw, 2008 Background information Born (1937-05-24) May 24, 1937 (age 77) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Genres Jazz Occupation(s) Composer, saxophonist, pianist Instruments Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, piano, vocals Years active 1960–present Labels Impulse!, SteepleChase Arista, Delmark, BYG Actuel Associated acts Cecil Taylor John Coltrane Horace Parlan Website www.archieshepp.com Archie... Read full biography of Archie Shepp → 1 2 Ctrl → So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very... → 0 In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the... → 0 Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the... → 0 And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the... → 0 Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative... → 0 In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its... → 0 To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only... → 0 A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. 0 Today, music is visual. 0 It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement... → 0 You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's... → 0 Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. 0 I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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