ARCHIE SHEPP - Kwanza (Verve By Request Series) ROXY MUSIC to say she writes about

to say she writes about pain erases all the strange joy her music emanates

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ARCHIE SHEPP - Kwanza (Verve By Request Series) ROXY MUSIC to say she writes aboutLP This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180 gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit. These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Archie Shepps free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs