Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight LP 1970s resissue Canada NEAR MINT VINYL

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Archie Shepp

Mama Too Tight

Label:Impulse! 9027-9134  Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo  Country:Canada
Released: 1970s   Genre:Jazz  Style:Free Jazz

Features one of Shepp's finest moments, the intricate, 18+ minute epic three-part suite "A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (as a young man)." Features: Tommy Turrentine, Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncus III, Perry Robinson, Charlie Haden, Howard Johnson, Beaver Harris. "It was my intention to couple, in this album, the poignancy of the blues and the jubilant irreverence of a marching band returning from a funeral. It is my interpretation of a slave and neo-slave experience; rather like the feeling of being subjected to a 'haunt.' But the victims have their ghosts too. Where my own dreams sufficed, I disregarded the western musical tradition all together. After all, the 'forms' we are working with are relatively new (I challenge the thesis that they are substantially new)." -- Archie Shepp

Tracklist

A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man) (18:51)

A1a Prelude To A Kiss

A1b The Break Strain - King Cotton

A1c Dem Basses

B1 Mama Too Tight 5:25

B2 Theme For Ernie 3:20

B3 Basheer 10:40

Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Bass – Charles Haden

Clarinet – Perry Robinson

Design [Cover Design] – Robert Flynn

Design [Liner Design] – Joe Lebow

Drums – William Godvin (Beaver) Harris

Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder

Liner Notes – Archie Shepp

Photography By – Charles Stewart

Producer – Bob Thiele

Tenor Saxophone – Archie Shepp

Trombone – Grachan Moncur III, Roswell Rudd

Trumpet – Tommy Turrentine

Tuba – Howard Johnson

Gatefold cover.

Green and blue label. 1970s issue.

Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, August 19, 1966 [jazzdisco.org]

CONDITION:  LP is NEAR MINT in a paper inner sleeve in a hard card gatefold picture sleeve (VG+)