This special CD release presents the complete 1962 Savoy album Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet, plus bonus tracks from a long unavailable sextet studio session by Shepp with the New York Contemporary Five , and a septet session by Bill Dixon.
For approximately 18 months (from the fall of 1961 to June 1963), Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon co-led a group that varied in size between a quartet, quintet and sextet, depending on the gig. They mostly played coffee houses and small theatres in Greenwich Village, and travelled to Scandinavia in July 1962 for a series of concerts at the first International Youth Festival in Helsinki.
Back in the United States, they featured in a series of radio performances on New York's WBAI. However, unless any unknown radio broadcast or live European performances surface, their only recorded work together consist of the studio quartet album made for
Savoy in October 1962, presented here on this special CD edition.
Archie Shepp's only other recording session for the Savoy label, including Don Cherry on one track, and Bill Dixon's second recording session, in a septet format, have been added as a bonus.
14 TRACKS. TOTAL TIME: 73:43. INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET
ARCHIE SHEPP, tenor sax; BILL DIXON, trumpet; DON MOORE, bass; REGGIE WORKMAN,bass; PAUL COHEN, drums; HOWARD McRAE ,drums. New York, October 1962.
