Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937-05-24
- Works
- 1
Top works
- In Memory of first ed last meeting
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Film & TV
Acting · Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 7 years old when his family moved to Philadelphia, in the black neighborhood of "Brick Yard". He started playing the banjo with his father, then he studied piano and saxophone at the same time as he did his secondary studies at Germantown College. He entered university, got into theatre, frequented novelists and poets like Leroy…
Known for
- Monk & Pannonica: An American Story — Self2022
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (voice) (archive sound)2022
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool — Self - Musician2019
- The Sound Before the Fury — Self2014
- Dark Gable2011
- Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2 — Self2009
- 24 Bars — Marcus2007
- Scala Milan AC2005
- Mystery Mister Ra — Self1984
- Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie — Self1984
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 183,531
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- 1,406,486
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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, poet, and playwright long known for the outspoken political tones in his work. Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24th, 1937, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone). He is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late sixties which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by people of
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Three-Dimensional Conceptual Model of Corporate Performance
· 1979 · cited 24,144x
- The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders
· 1991 · cited 5,667x
- Corporate Social Responsibility
· 1999 · cited 4,207x
- The Electrical Resistivity Log as an Aid in Determining Some Reservoir Characteristics
· 1942 · cited 3,867x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,855x
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Key dates
- Born
- 24 May 1937
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fort Lauderdale
- Occupation
- musician
- Employer
- University at Buffalo
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- post-bop
- Instrument
- soprano saxophone
- Record label
- Impulse!
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