Impulse! · in the Kissa Kissa racks

The Magic Of Ju-Ju

Archie Shepp

Recorded	Apr 1967
Label	Impulse!
Released	1967
Personnel	9 credited players
Discogs	master 128821

The record

Three drummers and rhythm logs stack beneath Shepp's incantatory tenor on this plunge toward Africa-rooted free jazz. Late-'60s Impulse! turns ritualistic here, built more for invocation than melody.

Session personnel

Reggie Workman — bass
Beaver Harris — drums
Norman Connors — drums
Denis Charles — percussion
Ed Blackwell — percussion [rhythm logs]
Frank Charles — talking drum [talking drums]
Archie Shepp — tenor saxophone [tenor sax], composed by
Martin Banks — trumpet, flugelhorn [fluegelhorn]
Mike Zwerin — trumpet, trombone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 34 pressings on file.

1967	Impulse! · AS-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file · gatefold
1967	Impulse! · AS-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1967	Impulse! · A-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
1968	Impulse! · SIPL 512 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Album
1968	Impulse! · MIPL 512 — Vinyl, LP, Mono, Album
1968	Impulse! · A-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1968	Impulse! · A-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold · gatefold
1971	Impulse! · C 244-92.919 — Cassette, Album, Reissue
1972	Impulse! · AS-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1973	Impulse! · AS-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1974	Impulse! · A-9154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1976	Impulse! · IMPL 8030 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1976	ABC Impulse! · YP-8526-AI — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold
1976	ABC Impulse! · YP-8526-AI — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold · gatefold