Archie Shepp discography

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Archie Shepp discography.

Discography

= As leader/co-leader =

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style="text-align:center;"|Recording date

!Title

!Label

! style="text-align:center;"|Year released

!Notes

1962-10

| Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet

| Savoy

| 1963

|

1963-11

| The House I Live In

| SteepleChase

| 1980

| Live with the Lars Gullin Quintet

1964-08

| Four for Trane

| Impulse!

| 1965

|

1965-02,
1965-03

| Fire Music

| Impulse!

| 1965

|

1965-07

| New Thing at Newport

| Impulse!

| 1966

| Live split album with John Coltrane

1965-03,
1965-08

| On This Night

| Impulse!

| 1965

|

1966-02

| Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco

| Impulse!

| 1966

| Live

1966-02

| Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime

| Impulse!

| 1969

| Live

1966-08

| Mama Too Tight

| Impulse!

| 1967

|

1967-04

| The Magic of Ju-Ju

| Impulse!

| 1968

|

1967-10

| Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival

| SABA

| 1967

| Live

1968-01

| The Way Ahead

| Impulse!

| 1968

| Bonus tracks rec. 1989

1969-07

| Live at the Pan-African Festival

| BYG Actuel

| 1971

| Live

1969-08

| Yasmina, a Black Woman

| BYG Actuel

| 1969

|

1969-08

| Poem for Malcolm

| BYG Actuel

| 1969

|

1969-08

| Blasé

| BYG Actuel

| 1969

|

1968-09,
1969-02,
1969-08

| For Losers

| Impulse!

| 1970

|

1968-09,
1969-02,
1969-08

| Kwanza

| Impulse!

| 1974

|

1969-11

| Black Gipsy

| America

| 1970

|

1969-11,
1969-12

| Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones

| America

| 1970

| Septet with Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins a.o.

1971-05

| Things Have Got to Change

| Impulse!

| 1971

|

1970-07

| Live In Antibes (Vol.1 & Vol.2)

| BYG Actuel

| 1971

| Live with the Full Moon Ensemble

1969-11,
1970-07

| Pitchin Can

| America

| 1970

|

1970-07

| Coral Rock

| America

| 1973

|

1970-11

| Doodlin'

| Inner City

| 1976

|

1972-01

| Attica Blues

| Impulse!

| 1972

| big band recording

1972-09

| The Cry of My People

| Impulse!

| 1973

| big band recording

1975-04

| There's a Trumpet in My Soul

| Freedom

| 1975

|

1975-07

| Montreux One

| Freedom

| 1976

| Live

1975-07

| Montreux Two

| Freedom

| 1976

| Live

1975-08

| A Sea of Faces

| Black Saint

| 1975

| with Shirley Bunnie Foy

1975-09

| Jazz a Confronto 27

| Horo

| 1976

|

1975-09,
1975-10

| Body and Soul

| Horo

| 1978

|

1975-10

| Mariamar

| Horo

| 1976

|

1975-10

| U-Jaama (Unite)

| Uniteledis

| 1976

| Live

1975-10

| Bijou

| Musica

| 1976

| Live

1976-05

| Steam

| Enja

| 1976

| Live

1976-06

| Live in Tokyo

| Denon Jazz

| 1978

| Live

1976-06

| Hi-Fly

| Compendium

| 1976

| with Karin Krog

1976

| Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76

| Uniteledis

| 1976

| [2LP] duo recording with Max Roach

1977-04

| The Rising Sun Collection

| Just a Memory

| 1994

|

1977-04

| Goin' Home

| Steeplechase

| 1977

| duo recording with Horace Parlan

1977-05

| Ballads for Trane

| Denon Jazz

| 1977

|

1977-06

| Day Dream

| Denon Jazz

| 1977

|

1977-10

| The Tradition

| Horo

| 1978

| [2LP]

1977-10

| Parisian Concert Vol. 1

| Sun

| 1977

|

1977-10

| Parisian Concert Vol. 2

| Sun

| 1978

|

1977-10

| A Touch of the Blues

| Fluid

| 1977

| featuring Joe Lee Wilson

1977-11

| On Green Dolphin Street

| Denon Jazz

| 1978

|

1978-07

| Maple Leaf Rag

| Fluid

| 1978

|

1978-09

| Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes

| Circle

| 1985

| Live album with George Adams, Heinz Sauer

1978-10

| Perfect Passions

| West Wind

| 1992

| with Siegfried Kessler, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis (Recorded in Warsaw, Poland)

1978-11

| Duet

| Denon Jazz

| 1978

| duo recording with Dollar Brand

1978-12

| Lady Bird

| Denon Jazz

| 1979

|

1979-01

| Things Have Got To Change: Live At The Totem Volume 1

| Marge

| 1979

| Live

1979-01

| Bird Fire: A Tribute to Charlie Parker

| Impro

| 1979

|

1979-04

| Tray of Silver

| Denon Jazz

| 1979

|

1979-10

| Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces

| Blue Marge

| 1979

| [2LP] Live big band recording

1980-02

| Trouble in Mind

| Steeplechase

| 1980

| duo recording with Horace Parlan

1980-02

| Looking at Bird

| Steeplechase

| 1981

| duo recording with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

1980-10

| Here Comes The Family

| Någarå

| 1981

| with Family of Percussion

1981-02

| I Know About the Life

| Sackville

| 1981

| with Kenny Werner, Santie Debriano and John Betsch

1981-11

| My Man - Tribute To Sydney Bechet

| West Wind

| 1982

| also released as Passport to Paradise: Archie Shepp Plays Sydney Bechet (1987)

1982-02

| Mama Rose

| Steeplechase

| 1982

| Live duo album with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof

1982-12

| Soul Song

| Enja

| 1983

|

1984-02

| Down Home New York

| Soul Note

| 1984

|

1984-10

| African Moods

| Circle

| 1984

| Live album with Jeanne Lee at Leverkusener Jazztage, Germany

1985-05

| California Meeting: Live on Broadway

| Soul Note

| 1987

| Live

1985-11

| Passion

| 52e Rue Est

| 1986

|

1985-12

| Little Red Moon

| Soul Note

| 1986

|

1987-05

| The Fifth of May

| L+R

| 1987

| duo recording with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof

1987-05

| Splashes

| L+R

| 1987

| Wilbur Little tribute

1987-05

| Duo Reunion

| L+R

| 1987

| with Horace Parlan

1987-10

| En concert: 1st set

| 52e Rue Est

| 1987

|

1987-10

| En concert: 2nd set

| 52e Rue Est

| 1987

|

1988-01

| Lover Man

| Timeless

| 1989

| featuring Annette Lowman

1989-03

| En concert à Banlieues Bleues

| 52e Rue Est

| 1989

| Live album with Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead a.o.

1989-10

| Body and Soul

| Enja

| 1991

| Live album with Richard Davis

1990-11

| Blues

| Alfa

| 1991

|

1990-11

| I Didn't Know About You

| Timeless

| 1991

|

1992-01

| Black Ballads

| Timeless

| 1992

|

1992-01

| Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp

| YAL

| 1992

| with Yusef Lateef

1995-11

| Blue Ballads

| Venus

| 1996

| with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad

1996-06

| Live In Paris

| Twins Production

| 2000

| Live album with Eric Le Lann

1996-12

| True Ballads

| Venus

| 1997

| with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad

1996-12

| True Ballads II

| Venus

| 1997

| with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad

1996-12

|Something to Live For

| Timeless

| 1997

|

1998-09

| True Blue

| Venus

| 1999

| with John Hicks, George Mraz, Billy Drummond

1999-01

| Conversations

| Delmark

| 1999

| with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio

2000-09

| Live in New York

| Verve

| 2001

| Live album with Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Grachan Moncur III

2001-06

| Deja Vu

| Venus

| 2002

| with Harold Mabern, George Mraz, Billy Drummond

2001?

| Hungarian Bebop

| BMC

| 2002

| with the Mihály Dresch Quartet

2002-02

|Left Alone Revisited

| Enja

| 2002

| duo recording with Mal Waldron

2003-05

| First Take

| Archieball

| 2005

| with Siegfried Kessler

2003

| Kindred Spirits Vol. 1

| Archieball

| 2005

| Live album with Dar Gnawa

2007-11

| Phat Jam in Milano

| Dawn of Freedom

| 2009

| Live

2010-11

| Wo!man

| Archieball

| 2011

| with Joachim Kühn

2017-09,
2018-11

| Let My People Go

| Archieball

| 2021

| [2LP, CD, FLAC] Live album with Jason Moran

2020

| Ocean Bridges

| Redefinition

| 2020

|[2LP] with Raw Poetic, Damu The Fudgemunk

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Compilations

  • Devil Blues (Circle, 1986) – including tracks from Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes
  • Gemini (Archieball, 2007)[2CD] – recorded in 2002 and 2007
  • Attica Blues Orchestra Live: I Hear The Sound (Archieball, 2013) – Live recorded in 2012 ("Festival Jazz à La Villette") and 2013 ("CNCDC Châteauvallon" and "Festival Les Nuits")

= As a member =

= As sideman =

With John Coltrane

With Sunny Murray

With Cecil Taylor

With others