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Joe McPhee: Live in Vilnius & The Damage is Done
by Marc Medwin
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet: At Molde 2007
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingJoe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London
by John Sharpe
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 ...
Continue ReadingJoe McPhee: Alto
by Lyn Horton
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 ...
Continue ReadingJoe McPhee / Peter Brotzmann / Kent Kessler / Michael Zerang: The Damage Is Done
by Mark Corroto
This live date features legendary free jazz pioneers Peter Brötzmann and Joe McPhee, and Chicago's leading rhythm section, bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Michael Zerang. The four also make up 4/10 of Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet, maybe the most successful large new music jazz ensemble ever assembled.
As they have in the past while touring with the Tentet, they step away and perform in this more intimate lineup. This quartet has released two previous recordings, Tales Out Of Time ...
Continue ReadingJoe McPhee & Fred Lonberg-Holm: Their First Duet, University of Chicago
by Lyn Horton
Joe McPhee and Fred Lonberg-Holm Bond Chapel, University of ChicagoChicago, IL November 9, 2009
Saxophonist Joe McPhee and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm have long been bandmates in Peter Brötzmann's Tentet, as well as in McPhee's Survival Unit III and in other groups formed during their mutual acquaintance. But never have the two had the opportunity to play with one another in a simple duo. The opportunity came when on November 9, immediately following several ...
Continue ReadingJoe McPhee: Angels, Devils & Haints
by Kurt Gottschalk
Angels, Devils & Haints is a beautifully unusual tribute record. The project was conceived by saxophonist Joe McPhee as a tribute to the great Albert Ayler, but doesn't include any of Ayler's tunes. The lineup--McPhee (tenor and alto saxophones and pocket trumpet) with a quartet of bassists--isn't an instrumentation Ayler ever used. And yet, from the outset, the dedication is wonderfully apparent. McPhee bifurcates the two principal elements of Ayler's sound, the soulful sax cry and the ...
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