Release Date: 01 December 2023
Label: Autumn Tone Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3521383464601
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 09 February 2024
Label: Autumn Tone Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 3521381564617
Genres: Jazz
Description
2021 duo album by pianist/composer and Blue Note Records' artist Jason Moran and saxophone great Archie Shepp. "Neither Archie Shepp nor Jason Moran are old, and neither are they young - except in spirit and delight. Moran is the more recent arrival, and he's no new kid on the block. They carry age and experience in their playing as much as a youthful fascination with the songs and forms that define this tradition we call jazz. Let My People Go is the timely title of this collection, but when has that message not been relevant? Now, sadly, as ever.
This is their first album together, a gathering of duet performances from 2017 and 2018, chronicling a relationship that can sound like the intimate huddling of two old friends: whispered asides, excited exclamations, utterances coinciding with practiced harmony, followed by bursts of laughter. "Ain't misbehavin'!" cries out one. "Waahhhh!!," says the other.
Let My People Go offers ample evidence of Shepp and Moran's consanguinity. Both were born in the deep South, raised up in the sound of the blues and black gospel: Shepp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Moran in Houston, Texas."- Ashley Kahn.
Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
Jason Moran: piano
Recorded September 12th, 2017, at La Philharmonie de Paris, and November 9th, 2018, at Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany.
Description
2021 duo album by pianist/composer and Blue Note Records' artist Jason Moran and saxophone great Archie Shepp. "Neither Archie Shepp nor Jason Moran are old, and neither are they young - except in spirit and delight. Moran is the more recent arrival, and he's no new kid on the block. They carry age and experience in their playing as much as a youthful fascination with the songs and forms that define this tradition we call jazz. Let My People Go is the timely title of this collection, but when has that message not been relevant? Now, sadly, as ever.
This is their first album together, a gathering of duet performances from 2017 and 2018, chronicling a relationship that can sound like the intimate huddling of two old friends: whispered asides, excited exclamations, utterances coinciding with practiced harmony, followed by bursts of laughter. "Ain't misbehavin'!" cries out one. "Waahhhh!!," says the other.
Let My People Go offers ample evidence of Shepp and Moran's consanguinity. Both were born in the deep South, raised up in the sound of the blues and black gospel: Shepp in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Moran in Houston, Texas."- Ashley Kahn.
Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
Jason Moran: piano
Recorded September 12th, 2017, at La Philharmonie de Paris, and November 9th, 2018, at Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Tony Hymas
Samuel Blaser
Pierrick Pedron & Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Murray Head
Naissam Jalal
Henri Texier
Haidouti Orkestar
Ana-Carla Maza
Peter Vuust & Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Mike Westbrook
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Jordan Hamilton
Art Tatum
Conrad Herwig
Arnaud Dolmen & Leonardo Montana
Arnaud Dolmen & Leonardo Montana
