Hardbopjazz Posted May 24, 2021 Report Share Posted May 24, 2021 84 years young today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Great, I saw him many times, mostly as a quartet, but the last time (already in the 2000´s ) with a trio with bass and drums. Shepp naturally played mostly tenor and still great enough, albeit due to age a little more slowed down. And he also played piano, a Monk ballad from the BN 40´s trio recordings, and he really did it very Monkish, if you closed your eyes you might have thought it´s Monk himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Happy birthday! Saw him once in the 70's at the Foxhole Cafe on Penn's campus. Shepp/Greenlea/Burrell/Cameron Brown/Beaver Harris. Amazing, especially "African Drums". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 1 hour ago, felser said: Happy birthday! Saw him once in the 70's at the Foxhole Cafe on Penn's campus. Shepp/Greenlea/Burrell/Cameron Brown/Beaver Harris. Amazing, especially "African Drums". JEEZ saw him a few times -- twice with Amina Claudine Myers and once with Dave Burrell a.o. at the Vision Festival. Great that this giant of the music is still with us and performing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 2 hours ago, felser said: Happy birthday! Saw him once in the 70's at the Foxhole Cafe on Penn's campus. Shepp/Greenlea/Burrell/Cameron Brown/Beaver Harris. Amazing, especially "African Drums". That was a great band! ... Wish I could have seen them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 The group I saw / heard in Boston was Shepp / Rudd / Howard Johnson / Haden / Beaver Harris. Raised the roof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 The very first time I saw him live was in maybe 1978 and the group was: Shepp on tenor and soprano, the great Siegfried Kessler on piano (born in Germany, lived in Paris), Bob Cunningham on bass, and Clifford Jarvis on drums. I´ll never forget that concert, though the performance hall was a very very ugly hall in a very ugly district. It was called "Kongresshaus", now there´s a food market (Billa) in the building. And about the same time, Shepp recorded "Bird Fire" with the same group for a french label . But they had a completely unkown trumpet player added on it and it would have been better without that trumpet, who anyway didn´t get much space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 23 hours ago, jlhoots said: The group I saw / heard in Boston was Shepp / Rudd / Howard Johnson / Haden / Beaver Harris. Raised the roof. Alvin Fielder talked about seeing that band at the Plugged Nickel. Can't even imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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