27 August 2007

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.


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:

  1. Boromir27 August 2007 at 17:28:00 CEST

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  2. Nuage fiché qui rêve28 August 2007 at 01:05:00 CEST

    Never heard of this record ! Thanks gentlemen

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  3. Anonymous28 August 2007 at 02:08:00 CEST

    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.

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  4. Anonymous28 August 2007 at 10:25:00 CEST

    Well done gentlemen! Great post! Thank you.

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  5. Anonymous28 August 2007 at 13:21:00 CEST

    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.

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  6. Anonymous28 August 2007 at 14:58:00 CEST

    thank you!

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  7. s.29 August 2007 at 03:59:00 CEST

    Awesome, thank you.

    Any chance you could turn on your RSS feed? ;>

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  8. Anonymous29 August 2007 at 13:53:00 CEST

    Update: A copy of "Coral Rock" has been nailed at a reasonable price!

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  9. david_grundy29 August 2007 at 20:20:00 CEST

    Rare shepp! thanks very much!

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  10. webbcity29 August 2007 at 21:54:00 CEST

    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...
    http://easilyslip.blogspot.com/

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  11. marramua30 August 2007 at 08:37:00 CEST

    Great blog..
    I put a link to you in my little blog

    http://marramua.blogspot.com/

    Thank you for the music

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  12. 10091 September 2007 at 00:30:00 CEST

    rss feed would be awesome. i almost missed some gems here!

    anyone else having problems w/ massmirror? i just get "uploading" for every mirror.

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  13. Anonymous1 September 2007 at 12:53:00 CEST

    im having problems as well.

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  14. Anonymous1 September 2007 at 17:57:00 CEST

    never heard of this shepp = thanks for the share.

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  15. Arcturus2 September 2007 at 22:46:00 CEST

    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

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  16. Arcturus2 September 2007 at 22:48:00 CEST

    err, think = "thick"

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  17. Anonymous22 November 2007 at 21:18:00 CET

    Muita obrigada, e bom

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  18. redrichie25 February 2008 at 21:07:00 CET

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  19. redrichie25 February 2008 at 21:19:00 CET

    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

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  20. blonchk30 August 2011 at 11:51:00 CEST

    Link seams to be broken (sigh)

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  21. Nick2 May 2013 at 05:05:00 CEST

    FLAC

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  22. kinabalu2 May 2013 at 12:54:00 CEST

    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!

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  23. daniel27 May 2014 at 18:44:00 CEST

    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

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  24. DW24 January 2015 at 01:27:00 CET

    A re-up would be most welcomed...

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  25. Anonymous7 March 2016 at 20:34:00 CET

    adding to the voices requesting a re-up of this and any other rare Shepp from this period
    thanks

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  26. kinabalu8 March 2016 at 19:05:00 CET

    New link:

    1fichier

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  27. nodyrrech9 March 2016 at 09:39:00 CET

    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?

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  28. DW9 March 2016 at 15:26:00 CET

    kinabalu, thanks!!!

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  29. kinabalu9 March 2016 at 21:05:00 CET

    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.

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  30. nod Y.10 March 2016 at 23:54:00 CET

    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.

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  31. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth6 February 2018 at 16:08:00 CET

    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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  32. Nick25 February 2018 at 20:03:00 CET

    1f

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  33. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth27 February 2018 at 20:36:00 CET

    Thank you, Nick!

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  34. jdogg15 September 2021 at 08:28:00 CEST

    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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