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1978 studio album by Archie Shepp
On Green Dolphin Street
Released 1978 Recorded November 28, 1977 Studio Sound Ideas Studios, New York City
Genre
Jazz Length 42 :04
Label
Denon YX-7524-ND
Producer Yoshio Ozawa
On Green Dolphin Street is an album by saxophonist
Archie Shepp recorded in 1977 for the Japanese
Denon label.
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Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating
AllMusic
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AllMusic stated: "The fact that Shepp is playing against such a conventional acoustic jazz backdrop gives On Green Dolphin Street its unique tension. The accompanists are a tamer group, working closer to the framework the songs provide. Still, Joe Chambers (drums), Sam Jones (bass), and Walter Bishop, Jr. (piano) are a sophisticated rhythm section managing to balance this with adept flexibility. Shepp's unique voice breathes new life into these standards, paying them the ultimate compliment; On Green Dolphin Street argues and convinces that these songs deserve to be sung again".
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Track listing
All compositions by Archie Shepp except where noted.
"
On Green Dolphin Street " (
Bronisław Kaper ,
Ned Washington ) – 7:58
"Enough" – 6:39
"The Scene Is Clean" (
Tadd Dameron ) – 6:32
"In a Mellow Blues" – 11:19
"
I Thought About You " (
Jimmy Van Heusen ,
Johnny Mercer ) – 9:36
Personnel
References
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)
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 With
Cecil Taylor With others