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Article: Live Review

Joe McPhee and Friends: Directed Improvisation at RUCMA, New York City

Read "Joe McPhee and Friends: Directed Improvisation at RUCMA, New York City" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Joe McPhee and Musicians RUCMA at the Living Theater New York City May 11, 2008 Although conducting and improvisation seem to be unlikely partners, nothing is more compelling than witnessing improvisation unfold during the process of conducting. To see a musician direct the music without necessarily playing an ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee: Voices: 10 Improvisations

Read "Voices: 10 Improvisations" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Being able to speak a language well implies a command of its syntactical dimensions. A fearless approach to maximizing the expression of ideas within language signifies creativity. Common to both a command of language and creativity is the principle of voice, which distinguishes itself from all similar practice. In music, voice simply, unquestionably, identifies how the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Angels, Devils and Haints/a Celebration of Albert and Donald Ayler

Angels, Devils and Haints/a Celebration of Albert and Donald Ayler

ANGELS, DEVILS AND HAINTS A celebration of Albert and Donald Ayler “In the year 2000, to celebrate the change of the century and the life and music of Albert Ayler, I organized a concert tour in France which featured four contra bassists and myself. This international bass quartet included Dominic Duval, Michael Bisio, Paul ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company

Read "Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Forty-one years after beginning his recording career on the day after John Coltrane's funeral in sessions led by trombonist Clifford Thornton (Freedom & Unity, Third World, 1967), saxophonist and trumpeter Joe McPhee is indeed the yeoman legend of the modern jazz-world. For many years a factory worker and sometime professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New ...

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Article: Album Review

Joe McPhee: Intimate Conversations

Read "Intimate Conversations" reviewed by Lyn Horton


Intimacy permeates many kinds of relationships. It is rare that in one context, several can be examined simultaneously. But the language of music coupled with the poetry of viewpoint can cover descriptive territory without too much hardship to demonstrate that intimacy requires depth of connection and can stretch the parameters for gaining insight and paying attention. ...

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The Open Door

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 2007

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N.Y.N.Y. 1971

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Black Magic Man - 06:25; 2. Nation Time - 14:10; 3. Song For Lauren - 13:16; 4. Message From Denmark - 13:33; 5. The Looking Glass I - 15:59; 6. Harriet - 13:36. Tutte le composizioni sono di McPhee.

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Don't Postpone Joy!

Label: White Butterfly
Released: 2007
Track listing: 1. Variations on Harriet (McPhee) - 27:26; 2. Feather Exchange (Lonberg-Holm) - 15:08; 3. Variations on Nation Time (McPhee) - 16:23; 4. Variations on Remembrance (McPhee) - 19:28

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Guts

Label: Okka Disk
Released: 2007
Track listing: Guts; Rising Spirits.

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Cato Salsa Experience & The Thing With Joe McPhee: Two Bands And A Legend

Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2007
Track listing: Who The Fuck; The witch; Too Much Fun; Tekla Loo; Louie Louie; You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me; The Nut; Baby Talk; I Can't Find My Mind, The Nut; Baby Talk; I Can't Find My Mind


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