Saxophonist Archie Shepp is the type of mixing jazz, or rather the mixture elsewhere. His whole career was formed collaborations, whether the confrontation with soul and funk on "Attica Blues", the North African music to "Bored" and "live at the pan-african festival, jazz Voice on the recent "Gemini" and his collaboration with singer Amina Claudine Myers, in short, almost as many records as meetings for this great jazzman. And there is one area in which Archie Shepp has always paid, is one of black talk, black speech of the Great Black Music, that is owed to Leroy Jones and Gil Scott-Heron. So it was not very surprising that the meeting with Napoleon Maddox born this live recording made in Milan last summer. I remember the last place that Napoleon Maddox is the emcee, beatboxer poet-Iswhat combo?! I have mentioned here. So here are our two artists who seem to want to work together to merge their respective worlds. Finally, this is what I expected on paper because the reality of the finished disc is different.
If the meeting has taken place it has mainly resulted in the resumption of the already highly honed repertoire of Iswhat?!, Ie through the appropriation of the work of Jack Walker (saxophonist in Iswhat?) By Archie Shepp and if the intensity is actually the appointment (that I have not been in Milan last summer ..), what do these so interpretations of the originals Iswhat?! ? I may even find the "Kashmir" most successful of Maddox on "The Life We Chose" as the latter. So yes, the drive is beautiful, the percussions Ahmid Drake brings a definite plus as its organic sensibility here is tense but what about the two saxophonists also present? Oliver Lake and Cochem Gastelum auraint of feeding a fire far more lively than that offered! On "Ill Biz" notament, where is expected the explosion sound? Rest
engineering Maddox microphone in hand arises again (but on his book) as one of the alter-ego of the other black-poet Saul Williams's time. A micro disappointment in short, unless you learn from this record how the music of rabid Iswhat?!.
If the meeting has taken place it has mainly resulted in the resumption of the already highly honed repertoire of Iswhat?!, Ie through the appropriation of the work of Jack Walker (saxophonist in Iswhat?) By Archie Shepp and if the intensity is actually the appointment (that I have not been in Milan last summer ..), what do these so interpretations of the originals Iswhat?! ? I may even find the "Kashmir" most successful of Maddox on "The Life We Chose" as the latter. So yes, the drive is beautiful, the percussions Ahmid Drake brings a definite plus as its organic sensibility here is tense but what about the two saxophonists also present? Oliver Lake and Cochem Gastelum auraint of feeding a fire far more lively than that offered! On "Ill Biz" notament, where is expected the explosion sound? Rest
engineering Maddox microphone in hand arises again (but on his book) as one of the alter-ego of the other black-poet Saul Williams's time. A micro disappointment in short, unless you learn from this record how the music of rabid Iswhat?!.
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