Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp
Person

Archie Shepp

Actor 1937-05-24 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 7 years old when his family moved to Philadelphia, in the black neighborhood of "Brick Yard". He started playing the banjo with his father, then he studied piano and saxophone at the same time as he did his secondary studies at Germantown College. He entered university, got into theatre, frequented novelists and poets like Leroy Jones, and wrote his first play "The Communist", an allegory on the situation of black Americans. At the end of the 50s, A...

Known for

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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

2019 · Self - Musician

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022 · Self (voice) (archive sound)

24 Bars

24 Bars

2007 · Marcus

Imagine the Sound

Imagine the Sound

1981 · Self

The Pan-African Festival in Algiers

The Pan-African Festival in Algiers

1969 · Self

Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally

Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally

1971 · Self

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

Monk & Pannonica: An American Story

2022 · Self

Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs

Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs

1969 · Self

Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie

Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie

1984 · Self

Dark Gable

Dark Gable

2011 · Movie

The Sound Before the Fury

The Sound Before the Fury

2014 · Self

Archie Shepp & Marc Ribot @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2010

Archie Shepp & Marc Ribot @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2010

2010 · Movie

Mystery Mister Ra

Mystery Mister Ra

1984 · Self

Archie Shepp & Chucho Valdés @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2011

Archie Shepp & Chucho Valdés @ Jazz à Porquerolles 2011

2011 · Movie

Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2

Archie Shepp Quartet: Live from the Teatro Alfieri - Torino 1977: Part 2

2009 · Self

Scala Milan AC

Scala Milan AC

2026 · Movie