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The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet

Recorded	Oct 1962
Label	SoundsGood Original Recordings
Catalog	MG 12178
Released	1962
Personnel	11 credited players
Discogs	master 188416

The record

Recorded in the fall of 1962, this session catches Shepp and Dixon before either name carried weight, with a shifting cast of bassists and drummers under a rotating alto voice. It reads as a working sketch of the free jazz movement still finding its footing.

Session personnel

John Tchicai — alto saxophone
Don Moore — bass
Reggie Workman — bass
Ronnie Boykins — bass
Howard McRae — drums
Paul Cohen — drums
Sunny Murray — drums
Ted Curson — piccolo trumpet, trumpet
Archie Shepp — tenor saxophone
Bill Dixon — trumpet
Don Cherry — trumpet, cornet

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1963	Savoy Records · MG-12178 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1963	Savoy Records · MG-12178 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Semicircle label
1972	CBS/Sony · SOPL 52-SY — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
1972	CBS/Sony · SOPL 52-SY — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
2016	Jeanne Dielman · JD117 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
2023	SoundsGood Original Recordings — MONO