Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble Live at Antibes (1970)

Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble Live at Antibes

Released 1970

Track listing:
All compositions by Archie Shepp
"The Early Bird, Part 1" - 22:16
"The Early Bird, Part 2" - 26:32
"Huru, Part 1" - 26:15
"Huru, Part 2" - 22:36

Recorded live at Antibes - Juan les Pins Jazz Festival, July 18, 1970

Personnel:
Archie Shepp ? tenor saxophone, piano, recitation
Clifford Thornton: trumpet, piano
Alan Shorter: flugelhorn
Joseph Dejean: guitar
Beb Guerin: double bass
Claude Delcloo: drums

Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble is a live album by Archie Shepp recorded at the Juan les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes, France, on July 18, 1970. It was originally released on the BYG Actuel label in two volumes and re-released as
a double CD in 2002. Each CD includes one title only. The sheet of rhythm by French team (Beb Guerin, Claude Delcloo and Joseph Dejean sounds like endless wave. Piano by Shepp or Thornton repeats simple patterns like white marks on the wave. On them, three fronts play free improvisation by rotation. Shepp groans poetry of implied political message. These elements are typical kinds of early '70s music culture. Far from easy listening. But, different from just noisy and avant-garde.

I do not think many free jazz / improvisation music funs get to like this work. But, maybe if someone feels something from this, he / she would be enchanted by this spellbound.　


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Arthur Jones - Scorpio

Arthur Jones: alto saxophone
Beb Guerin: bass
Claude Delcloo: drums

Review

by Brandon Burke

Arthur Jones had one of the warmer and more romantic styles in "energy music," making this, his debut as a leader, a highly enjoyable set. While the late-'60s avant-garde jazz scene is typically associated with heated and furious solo flights, Jones managed to fuse his love of older bop and blues players with the prevalent tendencies of the day. In this way, Jones was as adept at caressing a ballad as he was at shredding apart a fast one. Both of these sides are in evidence -- quite literally -- on this disc. The searing "C.R.M." opens the session with a relentless frenzy of notes; cutting and slashing everything in it's path. It is one of four Jones originals. The evocative and gritty ballad "Sad Eyes" begins the second on a much different note. This piece as well as the opening bars of the album's closer, "Brother B," provide a wonderful example of an avant-garde player digging into his blues roots. Where Archie Shepp incorporated a soulful Ben Webster swagger into the New Thing, Jones applies the style of another elder statesman, particularly that of Johnny Hodges. The result is also reminiscent of Ornette Coleman's mid-'60s trio sessions with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett, only Jones had the tendency to employ more squeaks and growls than did Coleman. Bassist Beb Guerin and drummer Claude Delcloo round out the trio and both are given a good amount of solo/duet time on each side's opener. Scorpio was recorded only a month after the trio supported Jacques Coursil on his first Actuel date, the quartet session, Way Ahead. This is a very warm and firmly rooted free jazz record. Highly recommended.

1969 SCORPIO

Kenneth Terroade - Love Rejoice

Kenneth Terroade: tenor saxophone, flute
Ronnie Beer: alto & tenor saxophones
Evan Chandley: bass clarinet, flute
François Tusques: piano, balafon
Beb Guerin: bass
Earl Freeman: bass
Claude Delcloo: drums

1969 LOVE REJOICE

Claude Delcloo / Arthur Jones - Africanasia

Claude Delcloo: drums
Arthur Jones: alto saxophone
Joseph Jarman: flute
Kenneth Terroade: flute
Roscoe Mitchell: flute
Clifford Thornton: congas
Earl Freeman: gong, bells, percussion
Malachi Favors: log-drums

1969 AFRICANASIA (LP)

Clifford Thornton - Ketchaoua

Clifford Thornton: percussion, trombone, trumpet, cornet, conga, percussion
Archie Shepp: soprano saxophone
Arthur Jones: alto saxophone
Grachan Moncur III: trombone
Dave Burrell: piano, bells
Earl Freeman: bass, percussion, conga, gong
Beb Guerin: bass
Sunny Muray: drums
Claude Delcloo: drums

Review

by Brandon Burke

Clifford Thornton's only Actuel date as a leader is, like many of the others in this BYG series, an all-star blowing session highly indicative of the times. For some, it will be difficult to tell whether taking credit for composing these pieces is a lost cause. This is some very free music and, save for a handful of scored passages, almost wholly improvised. A number of the scene's top players make appearances here in different groups. On the large ensemble pieces Thornton is joined by Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp (on soprano sax), Arthur Jones, Dave Burrell, Beb Guerin, Earl Freeman, and Sunny Murray. Otherwise, "Brotherhood," a piece for quintet, is performed by Thornton, Jones, Guerin, Freeman, and this time, drummer Claude Delcloo, while on "Speak With Your Echo" only the two bassists (Guerin and Freeman) accompany Thornton's cornet. This piece in particular is especially enjoyable and reminiscent perhaps of Arthur Jones' fantastic ballad, "Brother B," from his own Actuel LP, Scorpio. At times the ensemble pieces sound like a Pan-African Morton Feldman, and at others, hazy, psychedelic post bop. Fans of brooding and contemplative improvised music will find a great deal to enjoy here. In fact, many would argue that this is the best LP under Thornton's leadership.

1969 KETCHAOUA