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Three for Shepp
Three for Shepp is the debut album by American saxophonist Marion Brown featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Marion Brown's "Three for Shepp" is the image-in-the-mirror companion to Archie Shepp's "Four for Trane" recorded the year before. The program is equally divided between Brown's originals, which occupy the first half of the album, and Shepp tunes that take
, "Trouble in Mind", in 1980. "Goin' Home" was reissued on CD by SteepleChase Records on May 3, 1994.
Background.
After rising to the top of the avant-garde jazz movement during the 1960s, Archie Shepp faced a career challenge during the 1970s after the style lost popularity in the jazz scene, which had split between artists who played either a tamer or a more experimental sound. Shepp became a more mainstream performer, mostly playing hard bop, although he occasionally return to his