4/3/2023 0 Comments Archie full discographySupporting band's leader trumpeter/tuba player Michel Marre demonstrates few solos, not on the level of Shepp's better collaborators' though.CD version's two bonuses are more lively compositions, contain more inspired (and a bit freer) playing but can hardly save all album. Weirdest collaborator is German keyboardist Siegfred Kessler using solely analog synths with extremely non-jazzy plasticky effervescent sound. Kenny Werner on piano and Saheb Sarbib on bass among others), on "You're My Thrill" we hear mostly domestic European band. Then (strictly according to previous album formula again) we have series of hard hard bop ballads with a few freer reeds solos and some of vocals.In contrast to Soul Note release where Shepp plays with team of renown Americans (incl. At the very same way, "You're My Thrill" opens with 10+ minute long catchy r'n'b number of the same way (actually, it is same song as "Dow Home."'s opener, just titled here as "Passion" and completed with slightly different lyrics) Both vinyl and CD (reissued in 1990)versions are real obscurities.įrom very first album sounds it becomes obvious that Shepp (or label) obviously tries to re-vitalize "Down Home NY."'s successful formula. "You're My Thrill"(reissued later on CD as "Passion" with two bonus tracks) was recorded in France and released on tiny domestic Vent Du Sud label. One of better known albums of such kind is his "Down Home New York", recorded in States and released on renown Italian Soul Note label in 1984. Usually combined with vocals and bluesy hard-bop numbers, Shepp's albums from that period are often a mixed bag, but for followers contain lot of interesting moments. In mid 80s one of free jazz cult figures American tenor Archie Shepp returns to his early r'n'b roots again and again.
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