Archie Shepp (Wails) in the Middle Passage

In the Spirit of the Gracious and Compassionate
Creator of the Heavens and the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j6qZ1kaESQ

tenor-solo (approximately) 21:00-24:15

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so you can read this while listening)

our
ancestors

are screaming

we don’t
hear them

we want
their suffering

tenderly
and sweetly

intoned

tenderly
and sweetly

entombed

a reflection on Archie Shepp’s solo
in John Coltrane’s Ascension (Edition II)

Lester A. Knibbs
11 Shaban 1433
July 1, 2012