Archie Shepp - For Losers/Kwanza '2011

Tracks list

Tracklist

For Losers: 
1.Stick Em Up
2.Abstract
3.I Got It Bad (And That Aint Good) (Ellington / Webster )
4.What Would It Be Without You
5.Un Croque Monsieur (Cal Massey)
Kwanza: 
6.Back Back
7.Spoo Pee Doo
8.New Africa (Grachan Moncur III)
9.Slow Drag
10.Bakai (Cal Massey)

Though the two titles featured on this Impulse two-fer were originally issued
four years apart, they were recorded pretty much at the same time. For Losers,
released in 1970, reflects Archie Shepps deep fascination with rhythm & blues
and soul, as well as showing how vanguard jazz drew directly from the tradition.
Produced by Ed Michel, this album (and Kwanza) features Shepp in the company of
Grachan Moncur III, Jimmy Owens, Woody Shaw, Charles Davis, Dave Burrell, Cedar
Walton, Andy Bey, Robin Kenyatta, Cecil Payne, James Spaulding, Wilbur Ware,
Beaver Harris, Bernard Purdie, Joe Chambers, Leon Thomas, and Doris Troy, to
name a few. It ranges from the funky stomp of Stick Em Up with Thomas up front
and which draws equally on James Brown and Rufus Thomas, through to an avant
version of Duke Ellingtons I Got It Bad (And That Aint Good), with Troys vocal
atop a warm but angular and elastic harmonic arrangement, to a nearly straight
version of Cal Masseys classic ballad What Would It Be Without You, with
beautiful interplay between Shepps tenor and Paynes flute. The entire second
side is taken up by Un Croque Monsieur (Poem: For Losers), an outside jazz jam
of epic proportions. Kwanza, though it was recorded at nearly the same time, was
not released until 1974. Its cuts display the same lineups as those on For
Losers. While on the surface it would seem to be a collection of outtakes and
leftovers from the earlier album, it doesnt doesnt play like one. With Michel
producing only one track, and the balance by Bob Thiele, it sounds more like a
direct follow-up. Shepp composed three tunes here; two of which (Back Back and
Slow Drag, with killer trumpet work by Shaw) reflect the tough, nasty soul and
rhythm & blues foundations of the earlier album, while the other, Spoo Pee Doo,
while brief, is a curiously strange midtempo jazz ballad sung by Thomas. Moncurs
modally based free workout New Africa appears as the sets longest and most
satisfying number, with another Massey number, Makai, which has its repetitive,
labyrinthine counterpoint played to the hilt by Shepp and bassist Walter Booker.
Together, For Losers and Kwanza are hotly debated but essential parts of the
Shepp Impulse discography; they embody not merely the paradoxes of his vision,
but the enormity of it.~Thom Jurek

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