Archie Shepp: Fire Music

Archie Shepp: Fire Music LP Cover

Impulse/ABC-Paramount A-86 (US) [released 1965] [cover]
Impulse/ABC-Paramount AS-86 (US) [released 1965] [cover]
Impulse/ABC AS-86 (US) [released 1968]
Impulse/ABC AS-86 (US) [released 1972] [cover]
Impulse/Véga 86 (F)
Impulse/ABC A. 86 (F) [cover]
Impulse/MCA AS-86 (D) [cover]
Impulse/MCA MCA-39121 (US) [cover, back cover]
Impulse/MCA MCAC-39121 (US) (Cassette) [cover, back label]
Impulse/MCA MCAD-39121 (US) (CD) [cover]
Impulse/MCA Victor MVCI-23078 (J) (CD) [released 1992] [cover]
Impulse/GRP IMP-158 (US) (180g audiophile LP) [released 1995] [cover]
Impulse/GRP IMPD-158 (US) (20-bit CD) [released 1995] [cover]
Impulse/BMG IMP 11582 (EC) (20-bit CD) [released 1995] [cover]
Impulse/Universal Victor MVCJ-19093 (J) (20-bit CD) [released 1998] [cover]
Impulse/Universal Victor UCCI-9092 (J) (24-bit CD) [released 2001] [cover]

February 16 & March 9, 1965
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

  1. Hambone [12:05] (Archie Shepp)
  2. Los Olvidados [8:36] (Archie Shepp)
  3. Malcolm, Malcolm - Semper Malcolm [4:40] (Archie Shepp)
  4. Prelude To A Kiss [4:41] (Duke Ellington)
  5. The Girl From Ipanema [8:18] (Norman Gimbel, Venicius De Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Personnel on tracks 1-2 and 4-5:
Ted Curson (tp)
Joseph Orange (tb)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Marion Brown (as)
Reggie Johnson (b)
Joe Chambers (d)

Personnel on track 3:
Archie Shepp (ts)
David Izenson (b)
J.C. Moses (d)

* tracks 1-2 and 4-5 recorded February 16, 1965; track 3 recorded March 9, 1965
* track 5 appears on Standards On Impulse (IMP 12032)

Additional tracks on Impulse MVCI-23078:

  1. The Chased (take 1) [11:48] (Archie Shepp)
  2. The Chased (take 2) [6:13] (Archie Shepp)
  3. The Chased (take 3) [5:14] (Archie Shepp)
  4. The Picaninny [7:24] (Archie Shepp)

* same recording date and personnel as on track 3
* MVCI-23078 is entitled "Fire Music + 4"

Additional track on MCA/Impulse IMP 11582:

  1. Hambone (Live Version) [11:50] (Archie Shepp)

Virgil Jones (tp)
Ashley Fennell (tb)
Marion Brown (as)
Archie Shepp (ts)
Fred Pirtle (baritone sax)
Reggie Johnson (b)
Roger Blank (dr)

* track 6 recorded March 28, 1965 (appears also on The New Wave In Jazz (Impulse AS-90) and The New Breed (Impulse IA 9339/2))
* the CD reissues have different track timings
* Impulse/Universal Victor UCCI-9092 released as No 42 of the series "impulse! More Best 50"

Source: LR, CJ, HM

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