Archie Shepp
New York Contemporary Five

In 1963, cornetist Don Cherry , tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp , drummer J.C. Moses, alto saxophonist John Tchicai and bassist Don Moore performed at ...

They were like a meteor that streaked by too fast. In approximately a year’s time the New York Contemporary Five (NYC5) managed to squeeze out at leas...

The New York Contemporary Five was a short-lived avant jazz collective whose landmark 1963 session at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen was origina...

Although saxophonist Archie Shepp is listed as the leader of this release, The New York Contemporary Five was really a collective; a short-lived, free...