1971 studio album by Archie Shepp
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Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features a performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".[ 2]
"Money Blues, Parts 1 - 3" (Beaver Harris , Archie Shepp) - 18:20 "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior" (Cal Massey ) - 2:29 "Things Have Got to Change, Parts 1 and 2" (Massey) - 16:53 Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971.
Archie Shepp : tenor and soprano saxophone James Spaulding : alto saxophone , piccolo Roy Burrows , Ted Daniel : trumpet Charles Greenlee , Grachan Moncur III : trombone Howard Johnson : baritone saxophone Dave Burrell : electric piano Billy Butler , David Spinozza : guitar Roland Wilson: electric bass Beaver Harris : drums Ollie Anderson, Hetty "Bunchy" Fox , Calo Scott , Juma Sultan : percussion Joe Lee Wilson : lead vocal Anita Branham, Claudette Brown, Barbara Parsons, Ernestina Parsons, Jody Shayne, Anita Shepp, Johnny Shepp, Sharon Shepp: vocals
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Leader Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962) The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin , 1963) Four for Trane (1964) Fire Music (1965) On This Night (1965) New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane , 1965) Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Mama Too Tight (1966) The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Poem for Malcolm (1969) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970) Coral Rock (1970) Doodlin' (1970) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Bijou (1975) Body and Soul (Horo , 1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Mariamar (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog , 1976) Steam (1976) Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan , 1977) On Green Dolphin Street (1977) Duet (and Dollar Brand , 1978) Lady Bird (1978) Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1980) Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980) Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof , 1982) Soul Song (1982) Down Home New York (1984) California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985) Little Red Moon (1985) Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan , 1987) Splashes (1987) Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988) Body and Soul (and Richard Davis , Enja , 1989) Blue Ballads (1995) New York Contemporary Five WithCecil Taylor With others
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