Jazz Articles about Joe McPhee

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Joe McPhee: Soprano

by Lyn Horton
August 18, 2007

Sometimes, the best way to grasp of the power of an instrument is to hear it in a solo context without other instruments impacting its singularity. It matters if the musician playing the instrument is so engaged in knowing and feeling the instrument's range that the resulting sound emanates seemingly without effort. The music has originated with a master.

On September 10, 1998, Joe McPhee performed solo in St. Georges Chapel in Guelph, Canada at the Guelph Jazz Festival. He ...

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Joe McPhee / Peter Br: Guts

by Lyn Horton
August 2, 2007

When people die for what they believe in, their actions speak louder than words. At least for a moment. Repeat performances of their deaths are impossible. So it is up to those who survive them to revitalize the symbolism of their deaths. Creative people do this well in the form of a tribute, for they are lending their lives to the realm where they have invested their own spirits already.

The quartet of reedmen Joe McPhee and Peter ...

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Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing With Joe McPhee: Two Bands And A Legend

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 20, 2007

Two Bands And A Legend Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing With Joe McPhee Smalltown Superjazz 2007

“Are you cramped? Can you find your mind? Can you shake your ass?" asks Sonic Youth's guitarist Thurston Moore in his liner notes to Two Bands And A Legend. The album is the second collaboration (after Sound Like A Sandwich, Smalltown Superjazz, 2005) between Norwegian/Swedish power jazz trio The Thing, Norwegian psychedelic quartet Cato Salsa ...

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Joe McPhee Survival Unit III: Don't Postpone Joy!

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 22, 2007

Poche storie. Joe McPhee è uno dei giganti dell'improvvisazione contemporanea e una delle menti più lucide che ci siano in circolazione. Vuoi per l'enorme quantità di esperienza accumulata (dal free politicizzato alla “new wave” di Chicago, passando per Pauline Oliveros e le sue teorie), vuoi per le incredibili potenzialità espressive insite nel suo strabiliante polistrumentismo (per trovare qualcuno in grado di destreggiarsi con tanta naturalezza alle ance e agli ottoni bisognerebbe risalire a Benny Carter), il musicista di Miami è ...

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Joe McPhee: Collaborator

by Robert Iannapollo
April 8, 2007

From the beginning, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee has had a tendency to go against the grain and more often than not, has recorded in non-standard jazz group formations. It's clear that he must view this as one essential way of continually reinvigorating his art. Additionally, he has always seemed game for new and unexpected musical partnerships. These two releases feature McPhee in anomalous situations and both add slightly different wrinkles to his ever-expanding discography.

Joe McPhee/Paul Hession A Parallax ...

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Joe McPhee And The (Trio) X Factor

by Robert Iannapollo
March 3, 2007

2007 marks the 40th anniversary of a major event in jazz, the passing of John Coltrane. It also marks another event that may escape most people, a birth of sorts: the recording debut of multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, as a sideman on Clifford Thornton's Freedom And Unity, recorded the day after Coltrane's funeral. Those 48 hours were a watershed period in McPhee's life.McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY. At 8, his father, who played trumpet on the side, called ...

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Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II with Clifford Thornton: N.Y.N.Y. 1971

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 28, 2007

Furono proprio l'incontro con McPhee e l'ascolto dei nastri di questo concerto che nel 1974 convinsero Werner X. Uehlinger ad intraprendere l'attività di produttore discografico. Ed infatti la maggior parte degli LP pubblicati dalla Hat Hut negli anni Settanta erano tesi alla documentazione sistematica, quasi maniacale, della musica del polistrumentista americano. Quando nell'ottobre 1971 al WBAI's Free Music Store di New York fu registrata la performance riportata in questo CD (riedito dopo una prima apparizione in tiratura limitata nel 1996), ...