Goin' Home (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Goin' Home
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan


Released = 1977
Recorded = April 25, 1977
Sweet Silence Studios
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
Genre = Jazz, spiritual
Length = 43:24 (Original LP)
51:09 (CD reissue)
Label = SteepleChase
SCS-1079
Producer = Nils Winther
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:3xftxqygld0e link]
Chronology = Archie Shepp
Last album = "The Rising Sun Collection"
(1977)
This album = "Goin' Home"
(1977)
Next album = "Ballads for Trane"
(1977)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Horace Parlan
Type = Album
Last album = "Frank-ly Speaking" (1977)
This album = "Goin' Home" (1977)
Next album = "Blue Parlan" (1978)

"Goin' Home" is a 1977 jazz duet album by 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.

Overview

Track listing

"All songs are traditional compositions arranged by Shepp, except where noted."
# "Goin' Home" – 6:11
# "Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen" – 4:43
# "Go Down Moses" – 4:21
# "Steal Away to Jesus" – 6:14
# "Deep River" – 4:51
# "My Lord What a Morning" – 4:40
# "Amazing Grace" – 4:23
# "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" – 5:20
# "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – 2:44
# "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 7:46 "*issued on 1985 CD reissue"

Personnel

* Archie Shepp – arrangement, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone,
* Horace Parlan – piano
* Freddy Hansson – recording engineer
* Flemming Rasmussen – assistant engineer
* Nils Winther – production
* Gorm Valentin – cover photo

References