Celebrating National Endowment for the Arts #JazzMaster saxophonist, educator and poet #ArchieShepp's 84th birthday. Since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz. "My song is a paean, which seeks to recreate the mournful utterance of the first man or woman enslaved. I am the 'motherless child' who wails the blues while others smile." Shepp was born in Florida but grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studying piano, clarinet, and alto saxophone before switchi

Jazz Saxophone in November on Mezzo! Tonight at 8:30PM (CET) - Archie Shepp, David Murray, Hamid Drake - https://bit.ly/3HgUrG9 | Mezzo