Goin' Home

Goin' Home is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp and pianist Horace Parlan. It is the first of a series of duet records featuring the two musicians. The album was recorded in one session at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen and was critically praised by the jazz community soon after its release. It consists of Shepp's and Parlan's jazz interpretation of spirituals and black folk songs to which the album title alludes to. A... more

Musical Album

Artist

Horace Parlan

Horace Parlan (born January 19, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player. Noted for his contributions to the classic...

Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s...

Label

SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based out of Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given...
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