Jazz Articles about Joe McPhee

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Joe McPhee - Peter Brötzmann - Kent Kessler - Michael Zerang: The Damage Is Done

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 20, 2010

Due set brucianti, senza compromessi, quelli registrati all'Alchemia Club di Cracovia dal quartetto composto da Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann (tenore e tromba per il primo, alto, tenore, clarinetto e tarogato per il secondo), Kent Kessler (basso) e Michael Zerang (batteria). Tutti componenti del poderoso tentetto chicagoano del musicista tedesco, i quattro sanno imporre alla musica direzioni sempre mutevoli, anche se nel solco di quella sonorità post-free che da sempre ne contraddistingue il lessico e che si nutre di torrenziali fiumi ...

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Decoy and Joe McPhee: Oto

by Clifford Allen
September 16, 2010

Decoy and Joe McPheeOtoBo'Weavil2010 The existence of a free-improvising organ trio, though uncommon even in 2010, shouldn't be all that surprising and, indeed, you might be prompted to ask what took so long. Certainly, figures like Larry Young and John Patton stretched the boundaries of organ-jazz in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and composer / pianist / polymath Sun Ra employed the Hammond organ in some of his ensembles (though perhaps ...

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Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: 3 Days in Oslo

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
September 5, 2010

We live during a time when society needs music in boxes, connected with dots; music that can be readily explained and even more readily understood. But Peter Brotzmann tears down the walls, rips apart the boxes and completely shatters any preconceived notions of what music is supposed to be. He understands the necessity of art being able to express from the soul and spirit of the artist, and that is a freedom fought for, one that is intensely fought for. ...

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Joe McPhee: Live in Vilnius & The Damage is Done

by Marc Medwin
February 6, 2010

Trio XLive in VilniusNo Business2009 Joe McPhee / Peter Brotzmann / Kent Kessler / Michael ZerangThe Damage is DoneNot Two2009 Though conjuring quite different and sometimes problematic soundworlds, these Joe McPhee projects are satisfying as they blend tradition with innovation. Trio X' 2006 concert activity receives further documentation on the double ...

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Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: At Molde 2007

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 11, 2010

C'è un che di cabalistico ed esoterico in un tentetto che compie dieci anni. Lo strano fenomeno si è verificato nel 2007 (purtroppo per gli amanti della cabala non nel 2010), quando Peter Brötzmann e il suo Chicago Tentet hanno spento le dieci candeline. E per festeggiare degnamente il traguardo, il barbuto sassofonista teutonico ha deciso di pubblicare per la Okka un live set registrato a Molde, Norvegia, in quello stesso anno. Dieci anni di Chicago Tentet, dunque, dieci anni ...

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Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London

by John Sharpe
January 8, 2010

Joe McPhee Cafe Oto London, England December 11, 2009

When the eerie vocalized wail first manifested itself, the audience was left looking for the source. But it quickly became apparent that, even though his facial expression didn't betray the burden, saxophonist Joe McPhee was generating the noise at the same time as extracting multiphonic timbres from his soprano saxophone. McPhee's throat singing added an emotionally charged dimension to his already deeply soulful ...

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Joe McPhee: Alto

by Lyn Horton
January 5, 2010

It takes a certain amount of confidence for a musician to stand alone on a stage or in a recording studio and play an instrument. One of the few masters of jazz reed instruments, Joe McPhee still proceeds to make music as if for the first time. He is a master of the instruments he plays because, like an athlete, he maintains the physical chops as well as an openness to the application of the musical vocabulary he has cultivated ...