Archie Shepp - Pitchin' Can (1969)
This recording was released on the America label (which I understand never paid it's artists). It consists of just 2 tracks, the first "Uhuru (Dawn of Freedom" is the longest of the two and continues across both sides of the LP. This track has never been released on any other recording. The second, "Pitchin' Can" which is also the title of this album, has also been released on a CD Black Gipsy, but which I don't think is available.
Uhuru, particularly, is high energy stuff of the type Shepp was playing at the end of the 60s: 3 drummers, including the wonderfully named Ostaine Blue Warner, providing a back drop for Shepp' s searing tenor. There's also some nice work from Clifford Thornton, Lester Bowie
and Alan Shorter.
and Alan Shorter.
Line-up:-
"Uhuru"
Lester Bowie (tp)
Alan Shorter (flh)
Clifford Thornton (vtb)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Bobby Few (p)
Bob Reid (b)
Muhammad Ali (d)
Djibrill (cga)
Ostaine Blue Warner (per)
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"Pitchin Can"
Clifford Thornton (tp)
Archie Shepp (ss)
Noah Howard (as)
Julio Finn (hca)
Leroy Jenkins (vla)
Dave Burrell (p)
Earl Freeman (b)
Sunny Murray (d)
Chicago Beau (vo)
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Vinyl ripped at 192 kbps. Link in comments (click title).
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34 comments:
Never heard of this record ! Thanks gentlemen
Bloody hell, man! I was pondering over a ridiculously overpriced copy of this record and then it turns up here! Very much appreciated! Mind you, I will try to nail a copy of "Coral Rock" at a reasonable price, though.
Well done gentlemen! Great post! Thank you.
Dear Boromir
thank you very much for sharing this one. the personal on this is amazing, you can't go wrong with it.
Thanks, amigo
best regards, Enrique.
thank you!
Awesome, thank you.
Any chance you could turn on your RSS feed? ;>
Update: A copy of "Coral Rock" has been nailed at a reasonable price!
Rare shepp! thanks very much!
Beautiful, thank you!! Can't wait to hear this one. What a line-up.
By the way, I put up a link to you at my new blog...
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Great blog..
I put a link to you in my little blog
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Thank you for the music
rss feed would be awesome. i almost missed some gems here!
anyone else having problems w/ massmirror? i just get "uploading" for every mirror.
im having problems as well.
never heard of this shepp = thanks for the share.
yanno, I've got a modestly think shelf o' shepp & gotta chime w/ a ditto - never heard of this one before - snagged it the other night but haven't yet listened
err, think = "thick"
Muita obrigada, e bom
Hi there,
I presume that the Black Gipsy referred to in the comments is the 1969 one released on Prestige. I rather like it...has Noah Howard and Dave Burrell (amongst others) on it. I do have the CD that I managed to get from caimen a while ago. Hadn't realised it was oop, although looking at the sleeve again, I note that it appears to have been a Ltd edition on universal.
It is still available at some reasonable (and some marginally less so!) prices on Amazon Marketplace. I'd recommend it.
Richard
Link seams to be broken (sigh)
FLAC
Just a quick update on my old comment up above. In the mean time, I've managed to grab copies of both Coral Rock and this one, reasonably priced, but still appreciate having an easily retrievable digital copy right here. Thanks, Nick!
hi Nick, guys
could someone re-up this one please.. it seems i got here too late, rapidshare files are all dead..
let me know if you do.
thanks a lot
A re-up would be most welcomed...
adding to the voices requesting a re-up of this and any other rare Shepp from this period
thanks
New link:
1fichier
Hi Kinabalu
A nice post and a lesser known album of Shepp from the glory period of the Paris Days. The spirit in my country have totally changed now. Difficult to imagine that the city where I live was the place for free jazz when I see that actually the collective conscience is sleeping and listening quietly to the president and first minister who are from the left? Are they really? They say they are so it might be true no?
kinabalu, thanks!!!
It must have been thrilling to be in Paris during those heady days, though I don't know how much of this music was performed live in or outside the city.
Hi Kinabalu.
In fact there were two sides for this music to be performed. First the studio recordings mostly for byg and america that were recorded in different studios including the studio sarava. And there were regular gigs at the american cultural center with members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Braxton, Noah Howard, Shepp etc. The spirit of paris at this time was just incredible.
Hi Kinabalu - if possible a re-up would be appreciated.
I was sure I have this LP...but I have "only" Black Gypsy on LP.
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Thank you, Nick!
Please re-up. Not sure why the link keeps going dead, as this album is definitely out of print, and does not exist on CD.
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