Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features a performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".Verve website accessed 25 June 2009.
Track listing "Money Blues, Parts 1 - 3" (Beaver Harris, Archie Shepp) - 18:20 "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior" (Cal Massey) - 2:29 "Things Have Got to Change, Parts 1 and 2" (Massey) - 16:53 Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971.
Personnel Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophone James Spaulding: alto saxophone, piccolo Roy Burrows, Ted Daniel: trumpet Charles Greenlee, Grachan Moncur III: trombone Howard Johnson: baritone saxophone Dave Burrell: electric piano Billy Butler, David Spinozza: guitar Roland Wilson: electric bass Beaver Harris: drums Ollie Anderson, Hetty "Bunchy" Fox, Calo Scott, Juma Sultan: percussion Joe Lee Wilson: lead vocal Anita Branham, Claudette Brown, Barbara Parsons, Ernestina Parsons, Jody Shayne, Anita Shepp, Johnny Shepp, Sharon Shepp: vocals
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