Archie Shepp - I Didn't Know About You (1990) {2015 Japan Timeless Jazz Master Collection Complete Series}

Reissue with the latest remastering. Features original cover artwork. Comes with a descripton in Japanese. Straight, soulful work from Archie Shepp – an overlooked gem from the start of the 90s, and a set that we'd rank right up there with his classics from his great "straight" period of the late 70s! The album's got frequent partner Horace Parlan on piano – who already helps things get grounded in all the right territory – and the excellent Wayne Dockery is on bass, a player with subtle power that really helps give the album all the right depth. George Brown completes the group on drums – and Shepp blows both tenor and alto sax – the latter of which has this raspy quality that's maybe overblown, but in this really powerful way. Title sinclude "Ask Me Now", "Party Time", "Billie's Bossa", "Go Down Moses", and "Now's The Time".



Personnel:
Archie Shepp - tenor and alto saxophone, vocal
Horace Parlan - piano
Wayne Dockery - bass
George Brown - drums

Recorded November 6, 1990 at Studio Meilhaus, München, Germany

tracklist:
01 - Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)
02 - I Didn't Know About You
03 - Billie's Bossa
04 - Hot House
05 - The Good Life
06 - Now's the Time
07 - Ask Me Now
08 - Party-Time