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Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by African Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.〔 ==Biography== Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone and piano). Shepp studied drama at Goddard College from 1955 to 1959, but he eventually turned to music professionally. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. Shepp's first recording under his own name, ''Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet'', was released on Savoy Records in 1962, and featured a composition by Ornette Coleman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Archie Shepp Discography )〕 Further links to Coleman came with the establishment of the New York Contemporary Five, which included Don Cherry. John Coltrane's admiration led to recordings for Impulse! Records, the first of which was ''Four for Trane'' in 1964, an album of mainly Coltrane compositions on which he was sided by his long-time friend, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bass guitarist Reggie Workman and alto player John Tchicai. Shepp participated in the sessions for Coltrane's ''A Love Supreme'' in late 1964, but none of the takes he participated in were included on the final LP release (they were made available for the first time on a 2002 reissue).〔 However, Shepp, along with Tchicai and others from the ''Four for Trane'' sessions, then cut ''Ascension'' with Coltrane in 1965, and his place alongside Coltrane at the forefront of the avant-garde jazz scene was epitomized when the pair split a record (the first side a Coltrane set, the second a Shepp set) entitled ''New Thing at Newport'' released in late 1965. In 1965, Shepp released ''Fire Music'', which included the first signs of his developing political consciousness and his increasingly Afrocentric orientation. The album took its title from a ceremonial African music tradition and included a reading of an elegy for Malcolm X.〔 Shepp's 1967 ''The Magic of Ju-Ju'' also took its name from African musical traditions, and the music was strongly rooted in African music, featuring an African percussion ensemble. At this time, many African-American jazzmen were increasingly influenced by various continental African cultural and musical traditions; along with Pharoah Sanders, Shepp was at the forefront of this movement. ''The Magic of Ju-Ju'' defined Shepp's sound for the next few years: freeform avant-garde saxophone lines coupled with rhythms and cultural concepts from Africa. Shepp was invited to perform in Algiers for the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival〔 of the Organization for African Unity, along with Dave Burrell, Sunny Murray, and Clifford Thornton. This ensemble then recorded several sessions in Paris at the BYG Actuel studios. Shepp continued to experiment into the new decade, at various times including harmonica players and spoken word poets in his ensembles. With 1972's ''Attica Blues'' and ''The Cry of My People'', he spoke out for civil rights; the former album was a response to the Attica Prison riots.〔 Shepp also writes for theater; his works include ''The Communist'' (1965)〔("Musician Profile: Archie Shepp" ), All About Jazz.〕 and ''Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy'' (1972).〔("Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy" ), The Guide to Musical Theatre.〕 Both were produced by Robert Kalfin at the Chelsea Theater Center.〔("In and Around Town" (theater listings) ), ''New York Magazine'', p. 15, October 23, 1972.〕 In 1971, Shepp was recruited to the University of Massachusetts Amherst by Randolph Bromery,〔("Randolph W. Bromery, Champion of Diversity, Du Bois and Jazz as UMass Amherst Chancellor, Dead at 87" ), University of Massachusetts Amherst, February 27, 2013.〕 beginning a 30-year career as a professor of music. Shepp's first two courses were entitled "Revolutionary Concepts in African-American Music" and "Black Musician in the Theater." Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York. In the late 1970s and beyond, Shepp's career went between various old territories and various new ones. He continued to explore African music, while also recording blues, ballads, spirituals (on the 1977 album ''Goin' Home'' with Horace Parlan) and tributes to more traditional jazz figures such as Charlie Parker and Sidney Bechet, while at other times dabbling in R&B, and recording with various European artists including Jasper van't Hof, Tchangodei and Dresch Mihály. Since the early 1990s, he has often played with the French trumpeter Eric Le Lann. Shepp is featured in the 1981 documentary film ''Imagine the Sound'', in which he discusses and performs his music and poetry. Shepp also appears in ''Mystery, Mr. Ra'', a 1984 French documentary about Sun Ra. The film also includes footage of Shepp playing with Sun Ra's Arkestra. In 1993, he worked with Michel Herr to create the original score for the film ''Just Friends''. In 2002, Shepp appeared on the Red Hot Organization's tribute album to Fela Kuti, ''Red Hot and Riot''. Shepp appeared on a track entitled "No Agreement" alongside Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, and Positive Black Soul. In 2004 Archie Shepp founded his own record label, Archieball, together with Monette Berthomier. The label is located in Paris, France, and features collaborations with Jacques Coursil, Monica Passos, Bernard Lubat and Frank Cassenti. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Archie Shepp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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