condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (minimal wear)

Gatefold sleeve with original innersleeve.

Incendiary 1966 Archie Shepp in extended performance, issued by Impulse! a few years down the line - and the vault treatment takes nothing away from the heat. Side-long fire music from the absolute peak of the new thing: Shepp's enormous tone carrying history, rage and tenderness in a single phrase, the ensemble surging around him with mid-sixties conviction. The title's street-corner economics tell you where this music kept its feet even at its most abstract - in the daily life it came from and spoke for. For collectors of the great Impulse! Shepp run, an essential and somewhat overlooked chapter. US pressing, strong copy.