@ Pharaoh’s dance : Archie Shepp’s Thing Have Got To Change, released in 1971 solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change. The record which features many of Shepp’s longtime comrades including Joe Lee Wilson, Beaver Harris, Grechan Moncur III, and Ronald Wilson integrates the symphonic-like structure of the politically charged compositions with the spirited, cathartic sound for which Shepp is so notorious
@ The Daily Jazz :Archie Shepp had the knack of simultaneously sounding nothing like anything he’d done before, but at the same time sounding totally familiar. So it is with this classic impulse! session from 1971, precursor of the following year’s more well known ‘Attica Blues’.
@ Rick Saunders :If I was Barack and I was waiting to give my acceptance speech Archie Shepp- Things Have Got to Change is the song that would have played for sixteen minutes before I came out. I would have played it as loud as possible and the crowd was on the verge of riot.
@ Blastitude :You know, just crazy…but uh, anyway, as we were going to bed this kid put on Things Have Got To Change by Archie Shepp, and it just sounded incredible, it just sounded like it was burning, just this holy fire comin’ from the stereo.

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