This special CD release presents the complete 1962 Savoy album Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet, plus bonus tracks from a long unavailable sextet studio session by Shepp with the New York Contemporary Five , and a septet session by Bill Dixon. For approximately 18 months (from the fall of 1961 to June 1963), Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon co-led a group that varied in size between a quartet, quintet and sextet, depending on the gig.
Track Listing:
1. Trio - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
2. Quartet - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
3. Somewhere - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
4. Peace - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
5. Where Poppies Bloom (Where Poppies Blow) - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
6. Like a Blessed Baby Lamb - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
7. Consequences - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
8. Winter Song 1964 Section I - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
9. Winter Song 1964 Section II - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
10. Winter Song 1964 Section III - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
11. Winter Song 1964 Section IV - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
12. Winter Song 1964 Section V - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
13. Winter Song 1964 Coda - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
14. The 12th December - The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet
