Description
Very Saxophone – Archie Shepp / 口水非常薩克斯 / Ultra Analog CD AAD
UPC 9787884819034
Product Details:
- Label: ABC (INT'L) Records
- Format: Ultra Analog CD
- Country: Germany
- Released: 2020
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Saxophone, Classic Jazz
Overview
"Very Saxophone" by Archie Shepp is a masterful jazz album that captures the rich tones and expressive play of one of the genre's legendary saxophonists. This limited edition Ultra Analog CD is crafted with 99.9999% pure silver and features audiophile-grade sound, mastered from the original analog master tape. The album includes classic jazz standards like "The Thrill Is Gone," "Autumn Leaves," and "Georgia on My Mind," showcasing Shepp’s deep emotional resonance with every note he plays. The CD is carefully engineered using patented UltraAnalog technology, preserving the natural warmth and dynamics of the original recordings for a listening experience that feels vibrant and immersive.
The audio is refined with an extraordinary level of detail, capturing the nuances of Shepp’s saxophone and the incredible instrumental arrangement. Whether it’s the smooth sweep of "The Shadow of Your Smile" or the emotional depth of "Amazing Grace," the music is rendered in stunning fidelity. The unique combination of analog warmth and modern audiophile mastering techniques ensures that every track on this album is a rich sonic experience that evokes the powerful feeling of the original recordings. This album is a must-have for jazz connoisseurs and collectors seeking an authentic, high-fidelity listening experience.
Track Listing
- The Thrill Is Gone – 04:02
- The Shadow Of Your Smile – 04:10
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – 04:03
- Autumn Leaves – 05:19
- But Beautiful – 04:10
- Everytime We Say Goodbye – 03:58
- Nature Boy – 04:17
- Petite Fleur – 03:53
- Harlem Nocturne – 03:41
- Porgy – 04:18
- Georgia on My Mind – 03:53
- Here’s That Rainy Day – 04:02
- Violets For Your Furs – 04:02
- Nina – 04:25
- Nobody Knows The Troubles I’ve Seen – 03:45
- Amazing Grace – 04:29
Key Credits
- Artist: Archie Shepp
- Mastered by: Creative Mastering Engineer at ABC (INT'L) Records
At various times in his long career, saxophonist, composer, playwright, and educator Archie Shepp has been regarded as a musical firebrand, cultural radical, soulful throwback to the jazz tradition, contemplative veteran explorer, and global jazz statesman. During the ’60s, he was viewd as possibly the most articulate and intense member of the free jazz generation, using records such as Fire Music, The Way Ahead, and The Magic of Ju-Ju to speak hard truths about social injustice and the anger he felt. His tenor sax solos are searing, harsh, and unrelenting, played with a vivid intensity. During the mid-’70s, his work employed a fatback/swing-based R&B approach evoking Duke Ellington and Ben Webster (exemplified on Body and Soul and On Green Dolphin Street), while in the ’80s, on recordings such as Mama Rose, he mixed straight bop, ballads, and blues that displayed little of the fury and fire of his earlier days. Throughout the ’90s, Shepp recorded with a slew of bands for many labels, toured, and taught. As the 21st century dawned, Shepp had evolved from the provocative free jazz icon of his youth to elder jazz statesman. In 2016, he became an NEA Jazz Master.
He populates his musical world with themes and stylistic elements provided by the greatest voices of jazz: from Ellington to Monk and Mingus, from Parker to Siver and Taylor. His technical and emotional capacity enables him to integrate the varied elements inherited by the Masters of Tenor from Webster to Coltrane into his own playing but according to his very own combination : the wild raspiness of his attacks, his massive sound sculpted by a vibrato mastered in all ranges, his phrases carried to breathlessness, his abrupt level changes , the intensity of his tempos but also the velvety tenderness woven into a ballad. His play consistently deepens the spirit of the two faces of the original black American music: blues and spirituals.
With his freedom loving sensitivity Archie Shepp has made an inestimable contribution to the gathering, the publicizing and the inventing of jazz.
