Archie Shepp
Birthday
1937/05/24 (87 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Also know as
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Biography
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 t...Read more
Acting
(2007) 24 Bars
as Marcus
(2022) Monk & Pannonica: An American Story
as Self
(1969) The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
as Self
(2014) The Sound Before the Fury
as Self
(2019) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Musician
(2022) Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
(1969) Archie Shepp chez les Touaregs
as Self
Archie Shepp Quartet - Warsaw (Poland) 1978
as Themself
(1984) Mystery Mister Ra
as ---
(1981) Imagine the Sound
as Self
(2011) Dark Gable
as ---
(2005) Scala Milan AC
as ---
(1984) Archie Shepp: Je suis jazz... c'est ma vie
as Self