• Source: The Cry of My People

      • The Cry of My People is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1972 on the Impulse! label. The album features performances by Shepp with gospel singers, big bands, quintets, sextets, and chamber orchestras. The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Shepp worked with many larger ensembles as a leader, but never did he achieve such a perfect balance as he did on The Cry of My People".


      Track listing


      All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated

      "Rest Enough (Song to Mother)" - 4:41
      "A Prayer" (Cal Massey) - 6:29
      "All God's Children Got a Home in the Universe" - 2:58
      "The Lady" (Bob Ford) - 5:31
      "The Cry of My People" (Massey) - 5:45
      "African Drum Suite, Part 1" (Beaver Harris) - 0:35
      "African Drum Suite, Part 2" (Harris) - 7:34
      "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 9:30
      Recorded at Allegro Sound Studios, NYC, September 25–27, 1972


      Personnel


      Archie Shepp - tenor and soprano saxophone
      Harold Mabern, Dave Burrell - piano
      Charles McGhee - trumpet
      Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens - trombone
      Cornell Dupree - guitar
      Ron Carter - electric bass
      Jimmy Garrison - bass
      Bernard Purdie - drums
      Beaver Harris - drums
      Nene DeFense, Terry Quaye - congas, percussion, tambourine
      Guilherme Franco - berimbau, Brazilian percussion
      Peggie Blue, Joe Lee Wilson - lead vocals
      Andre Franklin, Mildred Lane, Mary Stephens, Barbara White, Judith White - backing vocals
      John Blake, Gayle Dixon, Leroy Jenkins, Lois Siessinger, Noel DeCosta, Jerry Little - violin
      Patricia Dixon, Esther Mellon - cello
      Romulus Franceschini - conductor, arranger
      Cal Massey, Dave Burrell, Charles Greenlee - arranger, conductor


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