Blasé (album)

Blasé
Blasé
Studio album by Archie Shepp
Released	1969
Recorded	August 16, 1969
Studio	Studios Davout, Paris, France
Genre	Jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, jazz poetry
Label	BYG Actuel Vol. 18; CDGR 292-2 (CD re-issue)
Producer	Jean Georgakarakos, Jean-Luc Young
Archie Shepp chronology

Professional ratings
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Allmusic	^[1]

Blasé is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Europe in 1969 for the BYG Actuel label.

Reception[edit]

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth named the title track as one of his favorite songs of all time.^[2]

Pitchfork listed the album at 145 in its 200 Best Albums of the 1960s.^[3]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written and arranged by Archie Shepp, except where noted.

"My Angel" – 10:08
"Blasé" – 10:25
"There Is a Balm in Gilead" (Traditional; arranged by Archie Shepp) – 5:57
"Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:11
"Touareg" – 9:15

Personnel[edit]

Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone
Jeanne Lee – vocal (except on track 5)
Dave Burrell – piano (exc. on track 5)
Chicago Beau – harmonica (tracks 1 & 2)
Julio Finn – harmonica (tracks 1 & 2)
Lester Bowie – trumpet, fluegelhorn (track 3)
Malachi Favors – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums

References[edit]

^ Blasé at AllMusic
^ Kaye, Ben. "Here are Thurston Moore's favorite songs of all time". Consequence. Consequence Media. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
^ Randle, Chris. "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Conde Nast. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

[1] Blasé at AllMusic

[2] Kaye, Ben. "Here are Thurston Moore's favorite songs of all time". Consequence. Consequence Media. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

[3] Randle, Chris. "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Conde Nast. Retrieved 20 December 2023.

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v t e Archie Shepp
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962) The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963) Four for Trane (1964) Fire Music (1965) On This Night (1965) New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965) Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Mama Too Tight (1966) The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Poem for Malcolm (1969) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970) Coral Rock (1970) Doodlin' (1970) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Bijou (1975) Body and Soul (Horo, 1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Mariamar (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976) Steam (1976) Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977) On Green Dolphin Street (1977) Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978) Lady Bird (1978) Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980) Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980) Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982) Soul Song (1982) Down Home New York (1984) California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985) Little Red Moon (1985) Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987) Splashes (1987) Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988) Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989) Blue Ballads (1995)
New York Contemporary Five	Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Consequences (1963) Rufus (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/ Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
With Cecil Taylor	Air (1960) The World of Cecil Taylor (1960) Cell Walk for Celeste (1961) New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
With others	A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964) Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965) Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969) One Down (Material, 1982) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)
Discography

v t e Dave Burrell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Expansion (2003) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)