Soul Song (Archie Shepp album)

1983 studio album by Archie Shepp

Soul Song

Studio album by

Archie Shepp

Released| 1983
Recorded| December 1, 1982
Studio| Studio N, Cologne
Genre| Jazz
Length| 38:07
Label| Enja
4050
Producer| Horst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann
Archie Shepp chronology
| Mama Rose
(1982)  | Soul Song
(1983)  | Down Home New York
(1984)

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Soul Song is an album by saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1982 for the Enja label.[1][2]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [3]

Scott Yanow at AllMusic awarded the album 2 stars, stating: "This is one of Archie Shepp's more erratic sets ... due to this release's weak first half, it can be safely passed by".[3]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Archie Shepp except where noted.

1. "Mama Rose" – 15:17
2. "Soul Song" – 4:00
3. "Geechee" – 18:33
4. "My Romance" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 7:17 Bonus track on CD release

## Personnel

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* Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals
* Kenny Werner – piano
* Santi Debriano – bass
* Marvin Smith – drums

## References

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1. ^ Archie Shepp Catalog accessed February 10, 2017
2. ^ Discogs album entry, February 10, 2017
3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Archie Shepp: Soul Song – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

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Archie Shepp

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.

Leader|

* Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
* The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963)
* Four for Trane (1964)
* Fire Music (1965)
* On This Night (1965)
* New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965)
* Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
* Mama Too Tight (1966)
* The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
* For Losers (1968–69)
* Kwanza (1968–69)
* The Way Ahead (1968)
* Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
* Black Gipsy (1969)
* Blasé (1969)
* Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
* Pitchin Can (1969–70)
* Poem for Malcolm (1969)
* Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
* Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
* Coral Rock (1970)
* Doodlin' (1970)
* Things Have Got to Change (1971)
* Attica Blues (1972)
* The Cry of My People (1972)
* A Sea of Faces (1975)
* Bijou (1975)
* Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
* Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
* Mariamar (1975)
* Montreux One (1975)
* Montreux Two (1975)
* There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
* Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976)
* Steam (1976)
* Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977)
* On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
* Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978)
* Lady Bird (1978)
* Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces (1979)
* Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980)
* Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
* Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982)
* Soul Song (1982)
* Down Home New York (1984)
* California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
* Little Red Moon (1985)
* Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987)
* Splashes (1987)
* Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
* Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989)
* Blue Ballads (1995)

New York
Contemporary
Five|

* Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)
* Consequences (1963)
* Rufus (1963)
* Bill Dixon 7-tette / Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)

With
Cecil
Taylor|

* Air (1960)
* The World of Cecil Taylor (1960)
* Cell Walk for Celeste (1961)
* New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961)
* Jumpin' Punkins (1961)

With
others|

* A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964)
* Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965)
* Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969)
* One Down (Material, 1982)
* You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)

Discography

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