Attica Blues (album)
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| Studio album by Archie Shepp | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | January 24–26, 1972 at A&R Recording, New York |
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| Genre | Jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, big band, jazz poetry | |||
| Label | Impulse! AS-9222 | |||
| Producer | Ed Michel | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| Rolling Stone | favorable |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  |
Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a reference to the Attica Prison riots.
The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states: "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results".Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone said that it was "not just a masterpiece of protest: [...] it is more a politico/religious experience, an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."
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