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Archie Shepp is back with a new album on his own Archie Ball label, a duo recording with German pianist Joachim Kühn. Both musicians can trace their careers back at least as far as the late sixties; at that time Shepp recorded a succession of fiery albums for the Impulse label, a lesser known Impulse release was the Kuhn brothers Impressions of New York (with Jimmy Garrison and Aldo Romano).
Joachim Kühn remembers seeing Shepp play at the Village Vanguard in 1967, shortly after the death of John Coltrane. The pair were brought together to play at a French festival in 2009, and they decided to record. Their virtuoso musical conversation mixes free improvisation, original compositions and arrangements of jazz standards.