Mama Too Tight

Mama Too Tight
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1967[1]
RecordedAugust 19, 1966
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, hard bop
Length37:43
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Archie Shepp chronology
Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco
(1966)
Mama Too Tight
(1967)
The Magic of Ju-Ju
(1967)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

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.

  1. ^ "Billboard". July 29, 1967.
  2. ^ AllMusic Review
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 179. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1289. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.