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“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”: Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan

February 1, 2019 by Timothy Judd

Recently, we explored briefly music inspired by the blues and African-American spirituals. Following that Martin Luther King Jr. Day post, a Listeners’ Club reader pointed me to this powerful track from the 1977 studio album, Goin’ Home, by American saxophonist Archie Shepp and pianist Horace Parlan. A human voice filled with longing and lament seems to cry out through Shepp’s saxophone. In an interview with DownBeat magazine, Shepp describes the tearful emotional state which came over him during the April …

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A native of Upstate New York, Timothy Judd has been a member of the Richmond Symphony violin section since 2001. In addition to performing and teaching, Timothy Judd is the author of the popular classical music appreciation blog, The Listeners’ Club…

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