Archie Shepp discography.
Discography edit
As leader/co-leader edit
| Recording date | Title | Label | Year released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-10 | Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet | Savoy | 1962 | |
| 1963-11 | The House I Live In | SteepleChase | 1980 | Live with the Lars Gullin Quintet |
| 1964-08 | Four for Trane | Impulse! | 1965 | |
| 1965-02, 1965-03 |
Fire Music | Impulse! | 1965 | |
| 1965-07 | New Thing at Newport | Impulse! | 1966 | Live split album with John Coltrane |
| 1965-03, 1965-08 |
On This Night | Impulse! | 1965 | |
| 1966-02 | Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco | Impulse! | 1966 | Live |
| 1966-02 | Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime | Impulse! | 1969 | Live |
| 1966-08 | Mama Too Tight | Impulse! | 1967 | |
| 1967-04 | The Magic of Ju-Ju | Impulse! | 1968 | |
| 1967-10 | Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival | SABA | 1967 | Live |
| 1968-01 | The Way Ahead | Impulse! | 1968 | Bonus tracks rec. 1989 |
| 1969-07 | Live at the Pan-African Festival | BYG Actuel | 1971 | Live |
| 1969-08 | Yasmina, a Black Woman | BYG Actuel | 1969 | |
| 1969-08 | Poem for Malcolm | BYG Actuel | 1969 | |
| 1969-08 | Blasé | BYG Actuel | 1969 | |
| 1968-09, 1969-02, 1969-08 |
For Losers | Impulse! | 1970 | |
| 1968-09, 1969-02, 1969-08 |
Kwanza | Impulse! | 1974 | |
| 1969-11 | Black Gipsy | America | 1970 | |
| 1969-11, 1969-12 |
Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones | America | 1970 | Septet with Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins a.o. |
| 1971-05 | Things Have Got to Change | Impulse! | 1971 | |
| 1970-07 | Live In Antibes (Vol.1 & Vol.2) | BYG Actuel | 1971 | Live with the Full Moon Ensemble |
| 1969-11, 1970-07 |
Pitchin Can | America | 1970 | |
| 1970-07 | Coral Rock | America | 1973 | |
| 1970-11 | Doodlin' | Inner City | 1976 | |
| 1972-01 | Attica Blues | Impulse! | 1972 | big band recording |
| 1972-09 | The Cry of My People | Impulse! | 1973 | big band recording |
| 1975-04 | There's a Trumpet in My Soul | Freedom | 1975 | |
| 1975-07 | Montreux One | Freedom | 1976 | Live |
| 1975-07 | Montreux Two | Freedom | 1976 | Live |
| 1975-08 | A Sea of Faces | Black Saint | 1975 | with Shirley Bunnie Foy |
| 1975-09 | Jazz a Confronto 27 | Horo | 1976 | |
| 1975-09, 1975-10 |
Body and Soul | Horo | 1978 | |
| 1975-10 | Mariamar | Horo | 1976 | |
| 1975-10 | U-Jaama (Unite) | Uniteledis | 1976 | Live |
| 1975-10 | Bijou | Musica | 1976 | Live |
| 1976-05 | Steam | Enja | 1976 | Live |
| 1976-06 | Live in Tokyo | Denon Jazz | 1978 | Live |
| 1976-06 | Hi-Fly | Compendium | 1976 | with Karin Krog |
| 1976 | Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76 | Uniteledis | 1976 | [2LP] duo recording with Max Roach |
| 1977-04 | The Rising Sun Collection | Just a Memory | 1994 | |
| 1977-04 | Goin' Home | Steeplechase | 1977 | duo recording with Horace Parlan |
| 1977-05 | Ballads for Trane | Denon Jazz | 1977 | |
| 1977-06 | Day Dream | Denon Jazz | 1977 | |
| 1977-10 | The Tradition | Horo | 1978 | [2LP] |
| 1977-10 | Parisian Concert Vol. 1 | Sun | 1977 | |
| 1977-10 | Parisian Concert Vol. 2 | Sun | 1978 | |
| 1977-10 | A Touch of the Blues | Fluid | 1977 | featuring Joe Lee Wilson |
| 1977-11 | On Green Dolphin Street | Denon Jazz | 1978 | |
| 1978-07 | Maple Leaf Rag | Fluid | 1978 | |
| 1978-09 | Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes | Circle | 1985 | Live album with George Adams, Heinz Sauer |
| 1978-10 | Perfect Passions | West Wind | 1992 | with Siegfried Kessler, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis (Recorded in Warsaw, Poland) |
| 1978-11 | Duet | Denon Jazz | 1978 | duo recording with Dollar Brand |
| 1978-12 | Lady Bird | Denon Jazz | 1979 | |
| 1979-01 | Things Have Got To Change: Live At The Totem Volume 1 | Marge | 1979 | Live |
| 1979-01 | Bird Fire: A Tribute to Charlie Parker | Impro | 1979 | |
| 1979-04 | Tray of Silver | Denon Jazz | 1979 | |
| 1979-10 | Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces | Blue Marge | 1979 | [2LP] Live big band recording |
| 1980-02 | Trouble in Mind | Steeplechase | 1980 | duo recording with Horace Parlan |
| 1980-02 | Looking at Bird | Steeplechase | 1981 | duo recording with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen |
| 1980-10 | Here Comes The Family | Någarå | 1981 | with Family of Percussion |
| 1981-02 | I Know About the Life | Sackville | 1981 | with Kenny Werner, Santie Debriano and John Betsch |
| 1981-11 | My Man - Tribute To Sydney Bechet | West Wind | 1982 | also released as Passport to Paradise: Archie Shepp Plays Sydney Bechet (1987) |
| 1982-02 | Mama Rose | Steeplechase | 1982 | Live duo album with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof |
| 1982-12 | Soul Song | Enja | 1983 | |
| 1984-02 | Down Home New York | Soul Note | 1984 | |
| 1984-10 | African Moods | Circle | 1984 | Live album with Jeanne Lee at Leverkusener Jazztage, Germany |
| 1985-05 | California Meeting: Live on Broadway | Soul Note | 1987 | Live |
| 1985-11 | Passion | 52e Rue Est | 1986 | |
| 1985-12 | Little Red Moon | Soul Note | 1986 | |
| 1987-05 | The Fifth of May | L+R | 1987 | duo recording with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof |
| 1987-05 | Splashes | L+R | 1987 | Wilbur Little tribute |
| 1987-05 | Duo Reunion | L+R | 1987 | with Horace Parlan |
| 1987-10 | En concert: 1st set | 52e Rue Est | 1987 | |
| 1987-10 | En concert: 2nd set | 52e Rue Est | 1987 | |
| 1988-01 | Lover Man | Timeless | 1989 | featuring Annette Lowman |
| 1989-03 | En concert à Banlieues Bleues | 52e Rue Est | 1989 | Live album with Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead a.o. |
| 1989-10 | Body and Soul | Enja | 1991 | Live album with Richard Davis |
| 1990-11 | Blues | Alfa | 1991 | |
| 1990-11 | I Didn't Know About You | Timeless | 1991 | |
| 1992-01 | Black Ballads | Timeless | 1992 | |
| 1992-01 | Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp | YAL | 1992 | with Yusef Lateef |
| 1995-11 | Blue Ballads | Venus | 1996 | with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad |
| 1996-06 | Live In Paris | Twins Production | 2000 | Live album with Eric Le Lann |
| 1996-12 | True Ballads | Venus | 1997 | with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad |
| 1996-12 | True Ballads II | Venus | 1997 | with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad |
| 1996-12 | Something to Live For | Timeless | 1997 | |
| 1998-09 | True Blue | Venus | 1999 | with John Hicks, George Mraz, Billy Drummond |
| 1999-01 | Conversations | Delmark | 1999 | with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio |
| 2000-09 | Live in New York | Verve | 2001 | Live album with Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Grachan Moncur III |
| 2001-06 | Deja Vu | Venus | 2002 | with Harold Mabern, George Mraz, Billy Drummond |
| 2001? | Hungarian Bebop | BMC | 2002 | with the Mihály Dresch Quartet |
| 2002-02 | Left Alone Revisited | Enja | 2002 | duo recording with Mal Waldron |
| 2003-05 | First Take | Archieball | 2005 | with Siegfried Kessler |
| 2003 | Kindred Spirits Vol. 1 | Archieball | 2005 | Live album with Dar Gnawa |
| 2007-11 | Phat Jam in Milano | Dawn of Freedom | 2009 | Live |
| 2010-11 | Wo!man | Archieball | 2011 | with Joachim Kühn |
| 2017-09, 2018-11 |
Let My People Go | Archieball | 2021 | [2LP, CD, FLAC] Live album with Jason Moran |
| 2020 | Ocean Bridges | Redefinition | 2020 | [2LP] with Raw Poetic, Damu The Fudgemunk |
Compilations
- Devil Blues (Circle, 1986) – including tracks from Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes
- Gemini (Archieball, 2007)[2CD] – recorded in 2002 and 2007
- Attica Blues Orchestra Live: I Hear The Sound (Archieball, 2013) – Live recorded in 2012 ("Festival Jazz à La Villette") and 2013 ("CNCDC Châteauvallon" and "Festival Les Nuits")
As a member edit
- Rufus (Fontana, 1963) – proto-NYCF, yet without Don Cherry
- Consequences (Fontana, 1963)
- New York Contemporary Five Vol. 1 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963)
- New York Contemporary Five Vol. 2 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963)
- Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (Savoy, 1964) – split album
As sideman edit
With John Coltrane
- A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) – rec. 1964
- Ascension (Impulse!, 1966) – rec. 1965
- The Major Works of John Coltrane (GRP, 1992) – rec. 1965
With Sunny Murray
- Sunshine (BYG, 1969)
- Homage to Africa (BYG, 1970) – rec. in 1969
With Cecil Taylor
- The World of Cecil Taylor (Candid, 1961) – rec. 1960
- New York City R&B (Candid, 1961)
- Jumpin' Punkins (Candid, 1971) – rec. 1961
- Air (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1960
- Cell Walk for Celeste (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1961
With others
- Dave Burrell, Echo (BYG, 1969)
- Alan Silva, Luna Surface (BYG, 1969)
- Clifford Thornton, Ketchaoua (BYG, 1969)
- Art Matthews, It's Easy to Remember (Baystate, 1978) – rec. 1979
- Siegfried Kessler Trio, Invitation (Sun, 1980) – rec. 1979
- Material, One Down (Celluloid, 1982) – on "Memories", accompanying Whitney Houston on her debut as lead vocalist.
- Chet Baker, In Memory Of (L+R, 1988)
- Frank Zappa, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Rykodisc, 1991) – live rec. 1969-88
- Jeff Silvertrust Quintet, Hip Knossis (Bulldozers From Jupiter, 2001)
- Mina Agossi Red Eyes (Naïve, 2011)
- Joachim Kühn, Voodoo Sense (ACT, 2013) – rec. 2011-12
- Alice Coltrane, Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat, 2018) – live rec. 1971