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  1. Mama Too Tight is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1967. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, trombonists Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd, tuba player Howard Johnson, clarinetist Perry Robinson, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Beaver Harris in August of 1966.

  2. What makes this record difficult is the odd instrumentation– Shepp blows his tenor, and adds to this clarinet (Perry Robinson), trumpet (Tommy Turrentine), two trombones (Grachan Moncur III and Roswell Rudd), tuba (the mighty Howard Johnson, and a pianoless rhythm section (bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Beaver Harris).

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  4. Sep 26, 2022 · Fire Music and Mama Too Tight have in summer 2022 been reissued in their entirety on one CD, as part of the ezz-thetics label's Revisited series. The albums are presented chronologically in their original running orders, bar one change.

  5. Mama Too Tight, an Album by Archie Shepp. Released in May 1967 on Impulse! (catalog no. AS-9134; Vinyl LP). Genres: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz. Rated #79 in the best albums of 1967, and #6835 of all time album..

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    • 19 August 1966
    • Archie Shepp
    • May 1967
  6. Jost may have had Fire Music and Mama Too Tight in mind when he suggested that by 1965 Shepp spoke “basically two musical languages whose grammar and syntax had hardly anything in common.” This reflected the commentariat’s insistence that a chasm existed between free jazz and mainstream jazz practices, and, implicitly, between the New ...

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  8. There are four tracks on Mama Too Tight, all of them in some way acting as extensions of the opening three-part suite, "A Portrait of Robert Thomson (As a Young Man)." Shepp had hit his stride here compositionally.