"In America, for a brief time, people who……" — Archie Shepp

"In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort."

— Archie Shepp

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