Jazz Articles about Joe McPhee

About Joe McPhee

Album Review

Joe McPhee: Solos : The Lost Tapes (1980 – 1981 – 1984)

Read "Solos : The Lost Tapes (1980 – 1981 – 1984)" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
May 26, 2015

The young cats (players thirty years his junior) know Joe. Players who have immersed themselves in free improvisation, like Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Evans, Martin Kuchen, and Mikołaj Trzaska, learned the possibilities of creating a new music from, not thin air, but from listening. They model their approach after Joe McPhee. Born in 1939, he has been a musician's musician since his experiments in solo performance in the 1970s. For years, copies of his infamous Tenor (Hat ...

Album Review

Decoy with Joe McPhee: Spontaneous Combustion

Read "Spontaneous Combustion" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 13, 2015

In spite of its relatively recent vintage, Oto (Bo' Weavil, 2010), the first encounter between Joe McPhee and British improvising trio Decoy, has quickly become one of the veteran multi-instrumentalist 's most popular recordings. By way of follow up Spontaneous Combustion first released as a LP, but now reissued as a double CD with added tracks, documents the second and third concerts by the band during a two night residency at Cafe Oto in October 2011. It's not too fanciful ...

Lyrics

Save The Date - Ottobre 2014

by Luca Canini
October 1, 2014

Addio estate. Arriva l'autunno ed è tempo di altri festival, altre rassegne, nuovi palchi. Ma prima dei consigli per ottobre, ci sono alcuni fili da riannodare, questioni lasciate in sospeso sulle quali tornare. Iniziamo da una buona notizia che rimbalza dalla Sardegna. Dopo l'inatteso rinvio e le ombre sul futuro alimentate dal silenzio, arrivano incoraggianti segnali di vita dal festival di Sant'Anna Arresi. L'organizzazione ha infatti comunicato che l'edizione numero 19, slittata a fine agosto, si svolgerà ...

Album Review

Trespass Trio + Joe McPhee: Human Encore

Read "Human Encore" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel
December 2, 2013

Portugal is one of the most free-jazz friendly countries on the planet, and the innovative Clean Feed label is one of the reasons why. With over two hundred releases thus far, Clean Feed has been documenting the next wave(s) of avant-free music. This includes the mighty Trespass Trio, a powerhouse group of improvisers consisting of Swedish saxophonist Martin Küchen, Norwegian double bassist Per Zanussi, and Swedish drummer Raymond Strid. Clean Feed released Trespass Trio's debut Was There to Illuminate the ...

Live Review

Nation Time Concert at the Guggenheim Museum

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 28, 2013

Richard Hell, Arto Lindsay, The Thing Guggenheim Museum Nation Time New York, NY November 20, 2013 Over the course of three forms of media and four decades, Amiri Baraka stretched his way into New York's Guggenheim Museum. A poem he penned more than 40 years ago found its path into the venerable visual arts institution via the music of Joe McPhee, which in turn inspired a response from painter Christopher Wool. In a roundabout ...

Book Review

Chris Searle: Red Groove

by Duncan Heining
November 1, 2013

Red Groove Chris Searle 283 pages ISBN: 978-1907869495 Five Leaves 2013 The life story of poet, teacher, author and activist Chris Searle is as intriguing as that of many of the musicians he discusses in Red Groove. Teaching at an inner city school in London in the early seventies, Searle encouraged his pupils to write poems about their lives and then published the results. An active trades unionist, ...

Album Review

Joe McPhee: Sonic Elements

Read "Sonic Elements" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 3, 2013

Ernest Hemingway might have said it best: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." For musician Joe McPhee, delivering that one true sentence has been his motivation since the 1960s.An in-demand improviser, he can be heard in multiple settings including the bands of Peter Brötzmann and Ken Vandermark, as a guest of the Deep Listening Band, Trespass Trio and Decoy, and with the rock band, Cato Salsa Experience. ...