Cat No: DVDARCH0702
Format: DVD

· A special DVD released in celebration of Archie Shepp’s 70th birthday in May 2007 - “Je suis jazz, c’est ma vie” is a documentary by Frank Cassenti filmed in 1983, Total time 54 minutes.
· featuring a Paris concert by Archie Shepp with Siegfried Kessler (piano), Wilbur Little (bass), Don Mumford, Cliford Jarvis (drums) & Cheikh Tidiane Fall (percussions).
· Also featured are special clips from the Porquerolles Jazz festival with Siegfried Kessler, Diego Imbert, Michel Benita, Aldo Romano, Mino Cinelu, & Stéphane Guery, plus excerpts from the film “Porquerolles, Island of Jazz” by Frank Cassenti.
· This digipak DVD also includes a superb 20-page booklet of Guy Le Querrec’s photographs of Shepp in Paris, 1967 – 1983, with commentary by the great man himself.
· “...in the club sequences, Shepp...generates enormous emotion, swings like mad...and expertly builds his solos to an exciting climax” David Meeker - ‘Jazz in the Movies’.