show notes for episode 9:

Archie Shepp

conversation recorded September 2018.

thank you for listening.

people referenced throughout the conversation:

Barack Obama, Mills Brothers, Lee Morgan, Stan Getz, Bo Diddley, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Don Ayler, Michael White, Edgar Batemen, Bob Cunningham, Sonny Rollins, Bob Thompson, Amiri Baraka, Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Gary Peacock, Bill Dixon, Leonard Bernstein, Ben Webster, Herschel Evans

books/plays/music referenced:

“Junebug Graduates Tonight” by Archie Shepp:

Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler:

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet:

Leonard Bernstein “Somewhere”:

The Mills Brothers “Sweet Sue”:

further recommended viewing/reading/listening:

Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk on Ed Sullivan (1969):

Archie Shepp Four for Trane (1964):

Blues People and Black Music by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka):

As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution by Val Wilmer:

Black Talk: How the Music of Black America Created a Radical Alternative to Western Literary Tradition by Ben Sidran (foreword by Archie Shepp):

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Scott Saul:

The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records by Ashley Kahn

Devil Sent The Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America by Tom Piazza:

Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place by George Lipsitz:

Forward Groove: Jazz and the Real World from Louis Armstrong to Gilad Atzmon by Chris Searle:

The Gentle Giant: The Autobiography of Yusef Lateef by Yusef Lateef and Herb Boyd:

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson:

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney:

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson:

Reclaiming the Black Past by Pero G. Dagbovie:

The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax:

Duties, Pleasure, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle by Michael Thelwell:

Listen, Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 by Pat Thomas:

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