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Angels, Devils & Haints
By Joe McPhee
Label: CJR
Released: 2009
Track listing: Angels, Devils and Haints; Goin' Home; Ol' Man River; Angels and Other Aliens; The Gift.
Joe 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 ...
Joe McPhee: Angels, Devils & Haints
by Lyn Horton
In 1965, Joe McPhee met Donald Ayler by chance in a New York record store. Ayler asked McPhee to join him at a rehearsal where Albert Ayler would be, but unfortunately McPhee was unable to make the rehearsal. That missed opportunity triggered a powerful response in May 2000, when McPhee invited a group of musicians to ...
The C.T. String Quartet: Reqiphoenix Nexus
by Lyn Horton
The key difference between the resonance of stringed instruments and the saxophone, to pick one example, is due to the material of the respective instruments. Wood boxes vibrate as a result of the strings being attacked and muted; metal vibrates as a result of embouchure, breath and the opening and shutting of valves. That difference illuminates ...
Port of Saints
By Joe McPhee
Label: CJR
Released: 2006
Track listing: Port of Saints; The Snake, The Fish (And Things).
In the Stillhouse (Live)
Label: CJR
Released: 2006
Track listing: Still Song for a Red Puppet; Slam's Blues; Still Dancer.
Michael Bisio / Raymond Boni / Dominic Duval / Joe McPhee: Port of Saints
by Lyn Horton
The unvarnished truth about improvised music is that it takes us where we never expect to go. Port of Saints describes an epic journey whose main character is the saxophone. A guitar acts as the saxophone's alter ego. Two basses supply avuncular guide posts for traveling to an unknowable but certain destination. The journey is rife ...
The Slam Trio: In the Stillhouse (Live)
by Kurt Gottschalk
For all his efforts organizing the Sunday night COMA concert series in Manhattan's Lower East Side, saxophonist Blaise Siwula is underdocumented on record. But he did get away long enough in 2004 to do a three-day New England tour with a strong trio alongside bassist Adam Lane and drummer Toshi Makihara. The last night, in Portland ...
Slammin' the Infinite
By Steve Swell
Label: CJR
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. With the Morning, Hope 2. East Village Meet and Greet 3. Box Set 4. Dresden Art Maneuvers 5. Slammin' the Infinite 6. Voices from the Asphalt 7. For Frank Lowe
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