Archie Shepp had the knack of simultaneously sounding nothing like anything he'd done before, but at the same time sounding totally familiar. So it is with this classic impulse! session from 1971, precursor of the following year's more well known 'Attica Blues'.

The lineup is extensive, being a who's who of the players Shepp had worked with over the previous few years. That might lead you to expect more outside playing, but the emphasis here is much more rhythmic, with a strong soul/R&B flavour. It's the free-jazz album Stevie Wonder would have made in 1971, had he put his mind to it.

The theme is the Blues, of course - it always is in Shepp's music. Oppression, poverty, violence; it's all here, Shepp's socially conscious vision telling it like itas the testimony from the deposition was still being read. His nap was not commented on by the judge or anyone in the courtroom.

Jurors eventually called it quits for the night with no verdict, wrapping up their first day of deliberations into whether the comedian drugged and molested Constand on a couch in his Cheltenham, Pa., home in January 2004.

During the often explicit testimony, Cosby occasionally smiled. He spent much of the two-hour reading rubbing his eyes and face.

The panel of seven men and five women was sent home following more than 10 hours of deliberation, from 11:08 a.m. to just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, jurors asked for a legal definition of “consent,” and to see differing statements from key defense witness Margo Jackson, who