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Hear Dolphy’s wild leaps of imagination on Here and There (Original
Jazz Classics), Out There (Original Jazz Classics), and Far Cry (Original
Jazz Classics), and on several Coltrane albums including Impressions
(GRP/Impulse!).
Dolphy also made numerous free jazz albums as a leader beginning in 1960.
Out To Lunch (Blue Note), recorded months before his death in 1964, features
some of his wild, free blowing, with its dark, haunting undertones.
Archie Shepp
On tenor saxophone and piano, Archie Shepp (born 1937) has been a vital
free-jazz player from the start. Cecil Taylor recruited Shepp to his band in
1960, and in the mid-’60s Coltrane helped Shepp land a recording contract.
Throughout his career, Shepp asserted that improvisation is the essential element
of jazz, as it was in the African music that influenced jazz. Improvisation
became a sort of conversation between musicians, and also between Shepp
and his audiences, who would add to the music by openly responding with
hand claps, foot taps, shouts, and whatever else they could use.
Shepp saw his free jazz as expressing some of the emotions felt by African
Americans during the turbulent 1960s. One of Shepp’s songs is titled
“Malcolm, Malcolm — Semper Malcolm,” in honor of civil rights leader
Malcolm X. He believes that it was important for jazz to express political,
social, and emotional realities, not just entertain.
Although his early saxophone playing took the form of honking, screaming
expression, his more recent music is more bluesy and melodic, in order to
reach a broader audience.
Check out Archie Shepp in Europe (Delmark), Four for Trane (GRP/Impulse!),
On This Night (GRP), and Magic of Ju-Ju (GRP/Impulse!).
Sun Ra
Sun Ra (1914–1993) claimed he was from another galaxy and because his
birth certificate was never found, he held on to his other-worldly demeanor.
Quite possibly, Sun Ra’s musical transformation was one of the most radical
in jazz. He began in the 1940s as a musical arranger for Chicago stage shows
and as a member of Fletcher Henderson’s swing band (see Chapter 6 for
information on Henderson). But by 1955, he led the Arkestra series of bands:
� The Solar Arkestra
� The Myth-Science Arkestra
� The Omniverse Arkestra
Chapter 8: A Radical Departure: The 1960s and 1970s
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