Archie Shepp's 'Four for Trane' Joins The Verve Vault Series

Archie Shepp's 'Four for Trane' Joins The Verve Vault Series

Four for Trane, originally released in 1964 on Impulse! Records, was saxophonist Archie Shepp’s first major studio statement and remains one of his most influential albums. The record will be reissued on all-analog 180-gram vinyl in December, as part of the Verve Vault Series. Produced by John Coltrane and recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio, Four for Trane presents four Coltrane compositions — “Naima,” “Mr. Syms,” “Syeeda’s So…