It was July 1969, a few weeks before Woodstock. Men had just landed on the moon. After 132 years of French colonialism, Algeria was independent, and 1 million settlers had left the country. It was a ...

Allow me to expand on a much restated quote from Albert Ayler: "Coltrane was The Father, Pharoah was The Son, and I was... The Holy Ghost." If we remain with the Christian iconography, that makes ...

Archie Shepp is in fine form on his latest CD, Tomorrow will be Another Day. The New Archie Shepp Quartet is an excellent group composed of Shepp on tenor, soprano and vocals, Amina Claudine Myers on ...

The material here is familiar territory for Shepp: a mix of spirituals and standards, some of which he’s recorded before on Goin’ Home and other prior releases, plus one Moran original. But Shepp has ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

Iconic jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp has collaborated with Raw Poetic and Damu the Fudgemunk on a new album. Ocean Bridges is out May 22 on Redefinition Records. Today, they’ve shared a new song from ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. With the passing of the great Pharoah Sanders in ...

The album art for Let My People Go was created by the Polish artist Jacek Woźniak. Credit: Courtesy the artist The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So ...

Archie Shepp is an American artist who was born in 1937. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galerie Zürcher, New York have featured Archie Shepp's work in the past.

While Record Store Day (RSD) is over for now, Mark Smotroff reports on his scores, some of which you still may be able to find in the racks of your favorite shops as well as online. Record Store Day ...