Things Have Got to Change

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".

[2] Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971.