Archie Shepp - Mama Too Tight flac album

Liner Notes – Archie Shepp. Photography By – Charles Stewart. Producer – Bob Thiele. Tenor Saxophone – Archie Shepp. Trombone – Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd. Trumpet – Tommy Turrentine. Mama Too Tight ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, RP). Impulse!, Impulse! IMP 12482, 051 248-2.

1. A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) (Album Version). 2. Mama Too Tight (Album Version). Other Albums by Archie Shepp. Archie Shepp & The New York Contemporary Five: Sound Barrier.

Mama Too Tight opens with one of the great subversive performances in the history of jazz. A horn section vamps over a dance riff that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Quincy Jones soundtrack. The groove is brought to a boil over the course of several minutes, then a lone tenor sax begins to bubble up from the back row; all of a sudden, this outlaw sax is defacing with bleating, untamed blues what previously appeared to be nothing more than pleasant dance

Mama Too Tight begins with Archie Shepp ceremoniously unscrewing your head from your body, an everyday act for this master in the 1960s. Portrait Of Robert Thomson As A Young Man is about as free as Shepp, and jazz, gets. This is in free time, and the whole band plays like Jackson Pollack throwing paint to canvas. There are two more tracks on the album that mix the most free styles with some of the most traditional. All four tracks go down in about forty minutes. A listener would miss the point thinking Mama Too Tight is about Shepp "playing in a wide range of styles" if I may write bad advertising copy. And if I begin to say "but Archie has a style all his own," please come and take my keyboard and demolish it against my skull. Mama Too Tight is just Shepp doing what he does best, playing jazz.

Mama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, Tommy Turrentine, Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd, Howard Johnson, Perry Robinson, Charlie Haden and Beaver Harris in August 1966.

Album: The Impulse Story: Archie Shepp, 2006. Archie Shepp – Mama Too Tight Impulse! A-9134 Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono US 1967. 00:00 A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) A1a Prelude To A Kiss A1b The Break Strain - King Cotton A1c Dem Basses. 18:57 B1 Mama Too Tight 24:23 B2 Theme For Ernie 27:45 B3 Basheer. Bass – Charles Haden Clarinet – Perry Robinson Drums – William Godvin (Beaver) Harris Tenor Saxophone – Archie Shepp Trombone – Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd Trumpet – Tommy Turrentine Tuba – Howard Johnson

Blasé is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Europe in 1969 for the BYG Actuel label. All tracks written and arranged by Archie Shepp, except where noted. There Is a Balm in Gilead" (Traditional; arranged by Archie Shepp) – 5:57. Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:11. Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone