title: Things Have Got to Change
text: # Things Have Got to Change
  
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  Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features a performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Money Blues, Parts 1 - 3" (Beaver Harris, Archie Shepp) - 18:20
  * "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior" (Cal Massey) - 2:29
  * "Things Have Got to Change, Parts 1 and 2" (Massey) - 16:53
  
  Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophone
  * James Spaulding: alto saxophone, piccolo
  * Roy Burrows, Ted Daniel: trumpet
  * Charles Greenlee, Grachan Moncur III: trombone
  * Howard Johnson: baritone saxophone
  * Dave Burrell: electric piano
  * Billy Butler, David Spinozza: guitar
  * Roland Wilson: electric bass
  * Beaver Harris: drums
  * Ollie Anderson, Hetty "Bunchy" Fox, Calo Scott, Juma Sultan: percussion
  * Joe Lee Wilson: lead vocal
  * Anita Branham, Claudette Brown, Barbara Parsons, Ernestina Parsons, Jody Shayne, Anita Shepp, Johnny Shepp, Sharon Shepp: vocals
  