Event Listing - Music
Thu Oct 23, 2008

26th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival

Archie Shepp


Tel. (866) 920-5299
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$25 - $65

Location
Date and Time
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: McAllister
district: Civic Center

Thu Oct 23, 2008 (7:30pm)

Description
A rare U.S. concert by an icon from the 1960s free jazz era! Known for his collaborations with New Thing avatars Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, Shepp refined an Afrocentric methodology on his classic albums Fire Music and The Magic of Ju-Ju. Shepp combines a rigorously intellectual improvisational approach with a gruff, emotionally bracing sound, and radical political thought. In the ’60s, Archie Shepp was as radical and incisive a thinker as he was a player, espousing Black Power and Afrocentric views in music, drama, and poetry.