Things Have Got to Change

Things Have Got to Change
Things Have Got to Change
Studio album by Archie Shepp
Released	1971
Recorded	May 17, 1971
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:42
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Ed Michel
Archie Shepp chronology

Released1971

RecordedMay 17, 1971

StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

GenreJazz

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Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features a performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".^[2]

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v t e Archie Shepp
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962) The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963) Four for Trane (1964) Fire Music (1965) On This Night (1965) New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965) Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Mama Too Tight (1966) The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Poem for Malcolm (1969) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970) Coral Rock (1970) Doodlin' (1970) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Bijou (1975) Body and Soul (Horo, 1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Mariamar (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976) Steam (1976) Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977) On Green Dolphin Street (1977) Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978) Lady Bird (1978) Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces (1979) Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980) Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980) Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982) Soul Song (1982) Down Home New York (1984) California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985) Little Red Moon (1985) Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987) Splashes (1987) Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988) Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989) Blue Ballads (1995)
New York Contemporary Five	Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Consequences (1963) Rufus (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette / Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
With Cecil Taylor	Air (1960) The World of Cecil Taylor (1960) Cell Walk for Celeste (1961) New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
With others	A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964) Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965) Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969) One Down (Material, 1982) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)
Discography

v t e Dave Burrell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Expansion (2003) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)

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