1970 studio album by Archie Shepp
For Losers Released July 1970 Recorded September 9, 1968; February 17 and August 26, 1969RCA Studios, New York City Genre Jazz Length 37 :34 Label Impulse! AS-9188 Producer Bob Thiele , Ed Michel
The Way Ahead (1969)
For Losers (1970)
Kwanza (1974)
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [1]
For Losers is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! in 1970. The album contains tracks recorded from September 1968 to August 1969 by Shepp with three different ensembles. The AllMusic review by Rob Ferrier states "for anyone wishing to understand the music and career of this brilliant musician, this is an undervalued piece of the puzzle".[2]
Track listing [ ]
All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated.
"Stick 'Em Up" - 2:04
"Abstract" - 4:21
"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) " (Duke Ellington , Paul Francis Webster ) - 5:15
"What Would It Be Without You" (Cal Massey ) - 4:05
"Un Croque Monsieur" - 21:49
Recorded September 9, 1968 (track 1), February 17, 1969 (track 2) and August 26, 1969 (tracks 3-5).
Personnel [ ]
Track 1
Track 2
Tracks 3-5
References [ ]
show Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader
Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin , 1963)
Four for Trane (1964)
Fire Music (1965)
On This Night (1965)
New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane , 1965)
Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
Mama Too Tight (1966)
The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
For Losers (1968–69)
Kwanza (1968–69)
The Way Ahead (1968)
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
Black Gipsy (1969)
Blasé (1969)
Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
Pitchin Can (1969–70)
Poem for Malcolm (1969)
Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
Coral Rock (1970)
Doodlin' (1970)
Things Have Got to Change (1971)
Attica Blues (1972)
The Cry of My People (1972)
A Sea of Faces (1975)
Bijou (1975)
Body and Soul (Horo , 1975)
Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
Mariamar (1975)
Montreux One (1975)
Montreux Two (1975)
There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog , 1976)
Steam (1976)
Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan , 1977)
On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
Duet (and Dollar Brand , 1978)
Lady Bird (1978)
Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1980)
Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof , 1982)
Soul Song (1982)
Down Home New York (1984)
California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
Little Red Moon (1985)
Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan , 1987)
Splashes (1987)
Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
Body and Soul (and Richard Davis , Enja , 1989)
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