Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five
Live album by New York Contemporary Five
Released	1963
Recorded	November 15, 1963
Genre	Jazz
Length	71:49
Label	Sonet
Archie Shepp chronology
Consequences (1963) Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) The House I Live In (1963)
Don Cherry chronology
Consequences (1963) Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five (1964)
Original Vol. 1 LP Cover

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five is a live album by the New York Contemporary Five recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963 and featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Don Moore and drummer J. C. Moses. The album was originally released on the Sonet label in 1963 as New York Contemporary 5 in two separate volumes on LP and later as an edited concert on a single CD, removing the track "Cisum."^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "historically significant".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Consequences" (Don Cherry) - 8:38
2. "Monk's Mood" (Thelonious Monk) - 2:30
3. "Emotions" (Ornette Coleman) - 8:44
4. "Wo Wo" (John Tchicai) - 5:51
5. "Trio" (Bill Dixon) - 15:28
6. "Crepuscule With Nellie" (Monk) - 2:15
7. "O.C." (Coleman) - 6:41
8. "When Will the Blues Leave?" (Coleman) - 8:58
9. "The Funeral" (Archie Shepp) - 5:05
10. "Mick" (Tchicai) - 7:39

Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963.

Personnel

• Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
• John Tchicai: alto saxophone
• Don Cherry: trumpet
• Don Moore: bass
• J. C. Moses: drums

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