Archie Shepp: "Attica Blues Big Band" - Live at Jazz à La Villette Festival.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

United States and Canada.

Jazz music.

Musicians.

Musical performances.

Local Subjects:

Jazz.

United States and Canada.

Jazz music.

Musicians.

Musical performances.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 minutes)

Other Title:

Archie Shepp: "Attica Blues" - Live at Jazz à La Villette Festival

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2012.

Language Note:

In French.

In English.

Original language in French.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Revived in 2014, 40 years after its creation, Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Big Band hit the tour circuit again with a first concert at Jazz à la Villette, a festival sponsored by the saxophonist. In the hexagon, the former Coltrane collaborator and saxophonist is an emeritus of the Impulse! Now settled in France, he has recruited the stars of the twenty-first century version of the venture. Assembled in the South for an artistic residence, the 25 musicians familiarized themselves with the original charts before they were restored. Archie Shepp had decided to invite a trio of singers (Cecile McLorin Salvant, Amina Claude Myers and Marion Rampal) and a horde of brass players to fulfill his grand aspirations. This revival had to be a celebration, while serving as a reminder that it was a denunciation-in-blues of the prison conditions of Afro-Americans in general and, in particular, those who had led the Attica Prison Riots in September of 1971. "I have the feeling that something ain’t going right, and I’m worried, I’m worried," Archie Shepp had written then for the lyrics of "Attica Blues." He sings it here in the grand finale of this concert at La Villette, with increasing power, concluding it as if to leave the public with a final note of hope and commitment. There is no better way to illustrate this strength from which Archie draws his music than to go back to the origins of his commitment: "The cry of my people," he says. That of the rebels of Attica. Florent Servia

Notes:

Performed Jazz à la Villette Festival

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