Soul Song (Archie Shepp album)

Soul Song
Studio album by Archie Shepp
Released	1983
Recorded	December 1, 1982
Studio	Studio N, Cologne
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:07
Label	Enja; 4050
Producer	Horst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann
Archie Shepp chronology

Soul Song is an album by saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1982 for the Enja label.^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars, stating: "This is one of Archie Shepp's more erratic sets ... due to this release's weak first half, it can be safely passed by".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Archie Shepp except where noted.

"Mama Rose" – 15:17
"Soul Song" – 4:00
"Geechee" – 18:33
"My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 7:17 Bonus track on CD release

Personnel

Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals
Kenny Werner – piano
Santi Debriano – bass
Marvin Smith – drums

References

↑ Archie Shepp Catalog accessed February 10, 2017
↑ Discogs album entry, February 10, 2017
1 2 Yanow, Scott. Archie Shepp: Soul Song – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

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[1] Archie Shepp Catalog accessed February 10, 2017

[2] Discogs album entry, February 10, 2017

[Allmusic-3] 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Archie Shepp: Soul Song – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

Archie Shepp
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
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	Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Consequences (1963) Rufus (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
Cecil Taylor	Air (1960) The World of Cecil Taylor (1960) Cell Walk for Celeste (1961) New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
With others	A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964) Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965) Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969) One Down (Material, 1982) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)
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