The discography of American jazz musician Archie Shepp encompasses approximately one hundred and thirteen albums.
Discography As leader/co-leader Recording dateTitleLabelYear releasedNotes 1962-10 Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet Savoy 1963 1963-11 The House I Live In SteepleChase 1980 Live with the Lars Gullin Quintet 1964-08 Four for Trane Impulse! 1965 1965-02, 1965-03 Fire Music Impulse! 1965 1965-07 New Thing at Newport Impulse! 1966 Live split album with John Coltrane 1965-03, 1965-08 On This Night Impulse! 1965 1966-02 Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco Impulse! 1966 Live 1966-02 Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime Impulse! 1969 Live 1966-08 Mama Too Tight Impulse! 1967 1967-04 The Magic of Ju-Ju Impulse! 1968 1967-10 Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival SABA 1967 Live 1968-01 The Way Ahead Impulse! 1968 Bonus tracks rec. 1989 1969-07 Live at the Pan-African Festival BYG Actuel 1971 Live 1969-08 Yasmina, a Black Woman BYG Actuel 1969 1969-08 Poem for Malcolm BYG Actuel 1969 1969-08 Blasé BYG Actuel 1969 1968-09, 1969-02, 1969-08 For Losers Impulse! 1970 1968-09, 1969-02, 1969-08 Kwanza Impulse! 1974 1969-11 Black Gipsy America 1970 1969-11, 1969-12 Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones America 1970 Septet with Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins a.o. 1971-05 Things Have Got to Change Impulse! 1971 1970-07 Live In Antibes (Vol.1 & Vol.2) BYG Actuel 1971 Live with the Full Moon Ensemble 1969-11, 1970-07 Pitchin Can America 1970 1970-07 Coral Rock America 1973 1970-11 Doodlin' Inner City 19761972-01 Attica Blues Impulse! 1972 big band recording1972-09 The Cry of My People Impulse! 1973 big band recording 1975-04 There's a Trumpet in My Soul Freedom 1975 1975-07 Montreux One Freedom 1976 Live 1975-07 Montreux Two Freedom 1976 Live 1975-08 A Sea of Faces Black Saint 1975 with Shirley Bunnie Foy 1975-09 Jazz a Confronto 27 Horo 1976 1975-09, 1975-10 Body and Soul Horo 1978 1975-10 Mariamar Horo 1976 1975-10 U-Jaama (Unite) Uniteledis 1976 Live 1975-10 Bijou Musica 1976 Live1976-05 Steam Enja 1976 Live1976-06 Live in Tokyo Denon Jazz 1978 Live1976-06 Hi-Fly Compendium 1976 with Karin Krog 1976 Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76 Uniteledis 1976 [2LP] duo recording with Max Roach 1977-04 The Rising Sun Collection Just a Memory 1994 1977-04 Goin' Home Steeplechase 1977 duo recording with Horace Parlan1977-05 Ballads for Trane Denon Jazz 1977 1977-06 Day Dream Denon Jazz 1977 1977-10 The Tradition Horo 1978 [2LP] 1977-10 Parisian Concert Vol. 1 Sun 1977 1977-10 Parisian Concert Vol. 2 Sun 1978 1977-10 A Touch of the Blues Fluid 1977 featuring Joe Lee Wilson 1977-11 On Green Dolphin Street Denon Jazz 1978 1978-07 Maple Leaf Rag Fluid 1978 1978-09 Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes Circle 1985 Live album with George Adams, Heinz Sauer 1978-10 Perfect Passions West Wind 1992 with Siegfried Kessler, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis (Recorded in Warsaw, Poland) 1978-11 Duet Denon Jazz 1978 duo recording with Dollar Brand 1978-12 Lady Bird Denon Jazz 1979 1979-01 Things Have Got To Change: Live At The Totem Volume 1 Marge 1979 Live1979-01 Bird Fire: A Tribute to Charlie Parker Impro 1979 1979-04 Tray of Silver Denon Jazz 1979 1979-10 Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces Blue Marge 1979 [2LP] Live big band recording 1980-02 Trouble in Mind Steeplechase 1980 duo recording with Horace Parlan 1980-02 Looking at Bird Steeplechase 1981 duo recording with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen 1980-10 Here Comes The Family Någarå 1981 with Family of Percussion 1981-02 I Know About the Life Sackville 1981 with Kenny Werner, Santie Debriano and John Betsch 1981-11 My Man - Tribute To Sydney Bechet West Wind 1982 also released as Passport to Paradise: Archie Shepp Plays Sydney Bechet (1987) 1982-02 Mama Rose Steeplechase 1982 Live duo album with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof 1982-12 Soul Song Enja 1983 1984-02 Down Home New York Soul Note 1984 1984-10 African Moods Circle 1984 Live album with Jeanne Lee at Leverkusener Jazztage, Germany 1985-05 California Meeting: Live on Broadway Soul Note 1987 Live 1985-11 Passion 52e Rue Est 1986 1985-12 Little Red Moon Soul Note 1986 1987-05 The Fifth of May L+R 1987 duo recording with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof 1987-05 Splashes L+R 1987 Wilbur Little tribute 1987-05 Duo Reunion L+R 1987 with Horace Parlan 1987-10 En concert: 1st set 52e Rue Est 1987 1987-10 En concert: 2nd set 52e Rue Est 1987 1988-01 Lover Man Timeless 1989 featuring Annette Lowman 1989-03 En concert à Banlieues Bleues 52e Rue Est 1989 Live album with Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead a.o. 1989-10 Body and Soul Enja 1991 Live album with Richard Davis 1990-11 Blues Alfa 1991 1990-11 I Didn't Know About You Timeless 1991 1992-01 Black Ballads Timeless 1992 1992-01 Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp YAL 1992 with Yusef Lateef 1995-11 Blue Ballads Venus 1996 with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad 1996-06 Live In Paris Twins Production 2000 Live album with Eric Le Lann 1996-12 True Ballads Venus 1997 with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad 1996-12 True Ballads II Venus 1997 with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad 1996-12 Something to Live For Timeless 1997 1998-09 True Blue Venus 1999 with John Hicks, George Mraz, Billy Drummond 1999-01 Conversations Delmark 1999 with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio 2000-09 Live in New York Verve 2001 Live album with Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Grachan Moncur III 2001-06 Deja Vu Venus 2001 with Harold Mabern, George Mraz, Billy Drummond 2001? Hungarian Bebop BMC 2002 with the Mihály Dresch Quartet 2002-02Left Alone Revisited Enja 2002 duo recording with Mal Waldron 2003-05 First Take Archieball 2005 with Siegfried Kessler 2003 Kindred Spirits Vol. 1 Archieball 2005 Live album with Dar Gnawa 2007-11 Phat Jam in Milano Dawn of Freedom 2009 Live 2010-11 Wo!man Archieball 2011 with Joachim Kühn 2017-09, 2018-11 Let My People Go Archieball 2021 [2LP, CD, FLAC] Live album with Jason Moran 2020 Ocean Bridges Redefinition 2020[2LP] with Raw Poetic, Damu The Fudgemunk
Compilations Devil Blues (Circle, 1986) – including tracks from Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes Gemini (Archieball, 2007)[2CD] – recorded in 2002 and 2007 Attica Blues Orchestra Live: I Hear The Sound (Archieball, 2013) – Live recorded in 2012 ("Festival Jazz à La Villette") and 2013 ("CNCDC Châteauvallon" and "Festival Les Nuits")
As a member New York Contemporary Five Rufus (Fontana, 1963) – proto-NYCF, yet without Don Cherry Consequences (Fontana, 1963) New York Contemporary Five Vol. 1 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963) New York Contemporary Five Vol. 2 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (Savoy, 1964) – split album
As sideman With John Coltrane A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) – rec. 1964 Ascension (Impulse!, 1966) – rec. 1965 The Major Works of John Coltrane (GRP, 1992) – rec. 1965
With Sunny Murray Sunshine (BYG, 1969) Homage to Africa (BYG, 1970) – rec. in 1969
With Cecil Taylor The World of Cecil Taylor (Candid, 1961) – rec. 1960 New York City R&B (Candid, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (Candid, 1971) – rec. 1961 Air (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1960 Cell Walk for Celeste (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1961
With others Dave Burrell, Echo (BYG, 1969) Alan Silva, Luna Surface (BYG, 1969) Clifford Thornton, Ketchaoua (BYG, 1969) Art Matthews, It's Easy to Remember (Baystate, 1978) – rec. 1979 Siegfried Kessler Trio, Invitation (Sun, 1980) – rec. 1979 Material, One Down (Celluloid, 1982) – on "Memories", accompanying Whitney Houston on her debut as lead vocalist. Chet Baker, In Memory Of (L+R, 1988) Frank Zappa, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Rykodisc, 1991) – live rec. 1969-88 Jeff Silvertrust Quintet, Hip Knossis (Bulldozers From Jupiter, 2001) Mina Agossi Red Eyes (Naïve, 2011) Joachim Kühn, Voodoo Sense (ACT, 2013) – rec. 2011-12 Alice Coltrane, Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat, 2018) – live rec. 1971 Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse!, 2024) – live rec. 1971
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