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- Artist: Archie Shepp
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- Release Date: 1965 02 16+1965 03 09
- Total Time: 38:20
- Type: Instrumental
- Genre: Jazz
Review
This particular early Archie Shepp recording has its strong moments, although it is a bit erratic. Four selections utilize an advanced sextet. Of these songs, "Hambone" has overly repetitive and rather monotonous riffing by the horns behind the soloists, and Shepp's bizarre exploration of "The Girl From Ipanema" gets tedious, but the episodic "Los Olvidaos" is quite colorful, and the tenorman sounds fine on a spacy rendition of "Prelude to a Kiss." "Malcolm, Malcolm-Semper Malcolm" has Shepp reading a brief poem for the fallen Malcolm X before he jams effectively on tenor in a trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer J.C. Moses. Overall, this set, even with its faults, is recommended. [The CD is rounded out by a "bonus" cut not on the original LP -- a live version of "Hambone" that is much more interesting than the earlier rendition.] ~ Scott Yanow, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Hambone | Archie Shepp | Archie Shepp | (12:05) |
| Los Olvidados | Archie Shepp | Archie Shepp | (8:36) |
| Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm | Archie Shepp | Archie Shepp | (4:40) |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Irving Mills, Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon | Archie Shepp | (4:41) |
| The Girl from Ipanema | Vinícius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim | Archie Shepp | (8:18) |
| Hambone [Live] | Archie Shepp | Archie Shepp | (11:52) |
