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Yasmina, A Black Woman

Archie Shepp

Recorded	Aug 12, 1969
Label	Yes To Jazz
Released	1969
Personnel	12 credited players
Discogs	master 128822

The record

Recorded during Shepp's fertile Paris sessions of '69, this sprawling summit stacks two drummers and two bassists against a frontline pulling from both the AACM (Mitchell, Bowie) and hard-bop lineage (Mobley, Philly Joe) -- fire music with deep roots showing through.

Session personnel

Malachi Favors — bass
"Philly" Joe Jones — drums
Dave Burrell — piano
Archie Shepp — tenor saxophone
Arthur Jones — alto saxophone
Earl Freeman — bass
Roscoe Mitchell — bass saxophone
Clifford Thornton — cornet
Sunny Murray — drums
Art Taylor — percussion [rhythm logs]
Lester Bowie — trumpet
Hank Mobley — tenor saxophone

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.

1969	BYG Records · 529.304 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold earliest on file · gatefold
1969	BYG Records · 529.304 — Vinyl, LP, Album · gatefold
1969	BYG Records · 529.304 — Vinyl, LP, Album · gatefold
1970	BYG Records · BYG-4 — Vinyl, LP, Album · gatefold
1970	BYG Records · S-21.230 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1970	BYG Records · BYG-4 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold cover · gatefold
1971	BYG Records · LBG 29005 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1971	BYG Records · 529.304 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold · gatefold
1975	BYG Records · YX-2031 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1975	BYG Records · YX-2031 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue
1979	Affinity · AFF 21 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1979	Affinity · AFF 21 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1981	Affinity · FA 20 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1982	Affinity · L6 359 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue