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    Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight

    Impulse
      • 1. A Portrait of Robert Thompson (as a young man)
      • 2. Mama Too Tight
      • 3. Theme for Ernie
      • 4. Basheer

      Recorded in the middle of Shepp's Impulse period, in 1966, with passion and fire from Roswell Rudd, Grachan Moncur and Howard Johnson in the brass section and the superb Charlie Haden on bass.

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            John HandyHard Work (1976)Impulse
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            John Coltrane QuartetBalladsImpulse
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