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Joe McPhee / Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: Brooklyn DNA
By Track review of "Putnam Central"The duo's semi-structured approach draws upon abstracts but is not dominated by an avant-garde perspective. Nonetheless, McPhee is a dazzling, multifaceted improviser who joggles the psyche. In this program, the two communicate a loose game plan assembled with tangible harmonic applications and wily improvisational jaunts. Therefore, "Putnam Central" (named for a Brooklyn social club attended by Charlie Parker and others) is a piece that toggles between earnestness and mutable dynamics.
McPhee's breathy, rhythmic, and darting pocket trumpet notes ride above Flaten's nimbly executed countermeasures, where a semblance of camaraderie is occasionally dissected with moments of angst. Paralleling a social club, the duo executes a surfeit of dips, spikes and mutant themes. Perhaps mimicking the noise of a congenial get-together, the musicians mingle an abundance of emotive aspects without veering off into a cosmic void. Here, art prolifically mimics life.
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Joe McPhee
woodwindsJoe McPhee: pocket trumpet, soprano and alto saxophones; Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: double bass.
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Title: Brooklyn DNA | Year Released: 2012 | Record Label: Clean Feed Records
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