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Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional jazz. Clifford Thornton ’s Freedom and Unity , recorded in 1967 and released in 1969 on the Third World label, is the first recording on which McPhee appears
Wailers
Label: European Echoes
Released: 2026
Track listing: Wailers; Hot Folk; Violet Souls; Theory of Mind III (for Joe); Subterranean Night Color; Blue Blowers.
Two Truths
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. Productive Cough (Peter Brötzmann, Jörg Fischer)
2. Beside (Per‑Åke Holmlander, Tim Daisy)
3. Conversation I (Joëlle Léandre, Lauren Newton)
4. Truth in the Abstract Blues (Joe McPhee, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten)
5. Goldie (Kirk Knuffke, Mike Pride)
6. Skywriting (Rob Brown, Daniel Levin)
7. Penumbra for woodwind(s) & bass(es) 1+1 (Anthony Braxton, Chris Dahlgren)
8. Improvisation No. 4 (Paulina Owczarek, Tomasz Gądecki)
9. Dear Rafał 1 (Agustí Fernández, Rafał Mazur)
10. Landing Takeoff (Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp)
11. In Kraków, In November (Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura)
12. Persistence (Thomas Pernes, Andy Manndorff)
13. Gold (Lucas Niggli, Peter Conradin Zumthor)
Charles Downs: Inner
by Don Ball
It has been a long time coming for Charles Downs' debut recording as a leader. He began his career in the 1970s playing as Rashid Bakr with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Jemeel Moondoc, William Parker and others before reverting to his birth name in the new century. Since then, he has performed as part of ...
Simon Rose, et al.: One Voice
by Mark Corroto
What is more American than jazz? Historians generally agree that the music was born in New Orleans, forged from African musical traditions, European harmony and Caribbean rhythms. Alongside jazz, baseball and basketball are among America's great cultural inventions. Yet today, none of these belongs solely to the United States. Japan captured the imagination of baseball fans ...
Michael Marcus Quartet: Next Stop Down!
by Troy Dostert
A fixture in the avant-garde jazz community since the early 1990s, multi-instrumentalist Michael Marcus has done notable work with his own ensembles and alongside other prominent improvisers such as William Parker, Sonny Simmons, Andrew Cyrille and Joe McPhee. His first release with ESP-Disk in 2022, Abstractions in Lime Caverns, featured the leader on no fewer than ...
Rodrigo Amado: Wailers
by Mark Corroto
A decade ago, it would have been easy to assume that saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language (Not Two, 2015) was a singular encounter rather than the beginning of an enduring ensemble. Amado had previously collaborated with bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love on Teatro (European Echoes, 2006), while drummer Chris Corsano would join ...
Bob Nell & Michael Bisio Trios: Trios: We Are Here
by Mark Corroto
Don't be misled by the adjective naïve when describing the collaboration between pianist Bob Nell and bassist Michael Bisio. Their recording We Are Here is hardly “naïve" in the sense of being inexperienced or unsophisticated. Rather, it embodies the word's more generous meaning: music that is natural, unforced and free of affectation. There is no posturing ...
New Releases From Carla Bley, Mike Lorenz, Pedro Molina & More
by Bob Osborne
This selection explores the vast spectrum of jazz, journeying from the archival brilliance of Carla Bley's 1984 Hamburg performance to the contemporary avant-garde dialogues of Satoko Fujii and Myra Melford. The tracklist balances intricate ensemble work, such as the Greenhouse Ensemble's modern textures, with the raw, improvisational energy of Joe McPhee and Miles Davis's experimental fusion. ...
New Music From Harry Skoler, Joe Syrian, Emie R Roussel, Ava Mendoza And More
by Bob Osborne
This selection offers a sophisticated journey through the contemporary jazz landscape, balancing melodic tradition with rigorous avant-garde exploration. The sequence moves seamlessly from the elegant, Goodman-inspired tones of Harry Skoler and the rhythmic drive of the Motor City Jazz Octet into the more abstract, adventurous territories of Ava Mendoza and Joel Futterman. Featuring a rich blend ...
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