Black Ballads
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Album • Jan 01 / 1992 • 11 songs, 1h 6m 20s
Hard Bop
Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, who was one of the enfant terribles of the free jazz generation in the 1960s, once said, seemingly uncharacteristically, "You can hear every minute of every hour of every day of every year a player puts into practicing his horn when he plays a ballad."