Rufus_(jazz_album) References

Rufus
Rufus
Studio album by John Tchicai & Archie Shepp
Released	1963
Recorded	August 23, 1963
Genre	Jazz
Label	Fontana
Archie Shepp chronology
John Tchicai chronology

Rufus is an album featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, bassist Don Moore and drummer J. C. Moses. The album was released on the Fontana label in 1963.^[1] This group with the addition of trumpeter Don Cherry became known as the New York Contemporary Five and released Consequences for which this album appears to have been a " pilot".^[2]

Track listing

"Rufus" (Archie Shepp) - 11:18
"Nettus" (John Tchicai) - 12:36
"Hoppin'" (Tchicai) - 7:10
"For Helved" (Tchicai) - 12:16
"Funeral" (Shepp) - 5:05

Recorded in New York City on August 23, 1963.

Personnel

References

^ Schonfield, V. Rufus liner notes accessed 31 July 2009
^ Young, B. (1998) Dixonia: a bio-discography of Bill Dixon, Greenwood Publishing Group, pg. 63

[1] Schonfield, V. Rufus liner notes accessed 31 July 2009

[2] Young, B. (1998) Dixonia: a bio-discography of Bill Dixon, Greenwood Publishing Group, pg. 63

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v t e Archie Shepp
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962) The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963) Four for Trane (1964) Fire Music (1965) On This Night (1965) New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965) Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966) Mama Too Tight (1966) The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967) For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Poem for Malcolm (1969) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970) Coral Rock (1970) Doodlin' (1970) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Bijou (1975) Body and Soul ( Horo, 1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Mariamar (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976) Steam (1976) Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977) On Green Dolphin Street (1977) Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978) Lady Bird (1978) Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980) Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980) Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982) Soul Song (1982) Down Home New York (1984) California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985) Little Red Moon (1985) Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987) Splashes (1987) Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988) Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989) Blue Ballads (1995)
New York Contemporary Five	Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963) Consequences (1963) Rufus (1963) Bill Dixon 7-tette/ Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
With Cecil Taylor	Air (1960) The World of Cecil Taylor (1960) Cell Walk for Celeste (1961) New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961) Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
With others	A Love Supreme ( John Coltrane, 1964) Ascension/ The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965) Echo ( Dave Burrell, 1969) One Down ( Material, 1982) You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 ( Frank Zappa, 1982–84)
Discography

v t e John Tchicai
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Rufus (1963) Big Chief Dreaming (2003)
Live albums	Willi the Pig (1975) Cassava Balls (1985) The African Tapes (1985) Tribal Ghost (2007)
Related articles	New York Art Quartet New York Contemporary Five