In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
-- Archie Shepp
   
Archie Shepp   Name:
Archie Shepp
Type:
Musician
Nationality:
American
Birth:
May 24, 1937
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