Attica Blues (album)


Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a reference to the Attica Prison riots.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states: "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results". Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone said that it was "not just a masterpiece of protest: it is more a politico/religious experience, an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."

Track listing

  1. "Attica Blues" – 4:49
  2. "Invocation: Attica Blues" – 0:18
  3. "Steam, Part 1" – 5:08
  4. "Invocation to Mr. Parker" – 3:17
  5. "Steam, Part 2" – 5:10
  6. "Blues for Brother George Jackson" – 4:00
  7. "Invocation: Ballad for a Child" – 0:30
  8. "Ballad for a Child" – 3:37
  9. "Good-Bye Sweet Pops" – 4:23
  10. "Quiet Dawn" – 6:12

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