Jazz Articles about Phil Stockli

Phil Stockli Quintet: Third Eye

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 14, 2004

The title of this disc may be slightly misleading. If its creator, saxophonist Phil Stockli, is to be taken at his word, you should be transported on an astral expedition, the kind of which Pharoah Sanders and Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith regularly course. Or you may expect to experience a sense a moving inner spirit. This does not happen with or as a result of the music on Third Eye.

But what emerges is still beautifully intense. Stockli's ...