Archie Shepp - Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime (1969 US Impulse! AS-9162 Gatefold LP, Japanese distribution)

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Archie Shepp - Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime | Vinyl LP - 1969 US Impulse! Gatefold (AS-9162, King Record Co. Ltd. Japan distribution)

This is not a separately manufactured Japanese pressing — it is the original US Impulse! pressing, distributed in Japan by King Record Co. Ltd. with Japanese liner notes added to the gatefold. Bob Thiele produced; Wally Heider engineered; Nat Hentoff wrote the original liner notes; Henry Epstein and Byron Goto designed the cover.

The recording was made on the same night as Live in San Francisco — February 19, 1966 at the Both/And Club — but held back and not issued until 1969. The quintet is the group Shepp was working with throughout 1966: Roswell Rudd on trombone, Beaver Harris on drums, Donald Garrett and Lewis Worrell on bass. What separates this material from Live in San Francisco is the mode of performance: rather than a set of composed or standard pieces, this is a single extended improvisation lasting thirty-three minutes, divided by the physical constraints of the LP format into Side A (approximately 17.5 minutes) and Side B (approximately 15.5 minutes).

Shepp and Rudd open together on a theme that starts boppish and moves quickly outward. Shepp takes the floor and stays there for most of Side A, his tenor large-toned and relentless. Beaver Harris plays at full intensity throughout. On Side B, Shepp moves to acoustic piano and Rudd takes a long trombone solo, the only sustained moment where Shepp steps aside. He picks up his saxophone to close the performance.