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Archie Shepp: On This Night

LP: Impulse A-97
CD: GRP Impulse GRD-125

Tracks & Composers
CD Tracks
1 On This Night (If That Great Day Would Come) (Shepp)
2 The Mac Man (Shepp)
3 The Mac Man [alternate] (Shepp)
4 The Original Mr. Sonny Boy Williamson (Shepp)
5 In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington, Kurtz, Mills)
6 Chased [take 1] (Shepp)
7 Chased [take 2] (Shepp)
8 Chased [take 3] (Shepp)
9 The Pickaninny (Shepp)
10 Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm (Shepp)

Hutcherson on tracks 1-5

Personnel
Archie Shepp (ts, p); Christine Spencer (vo); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); David Izenzon, Henry Grimes (b); Rashied Ali, J.C. Moses, Joe Chambers, and Ed Blackwell (d, per)

Recording Date & Location
9 Mar 1965; 12 Aug 1965, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Notes
The original On This Night LP consisted of tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9 plus "Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy" (which is now included on the CD reissue of New Thing at Newport).

Commentary
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