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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 ...
Joe McPhee: Tomorrow Came Today & Sweet Freedom- Now What?
by Robert Iannapollo
Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love Tomorrow Came Today Smalltown Superjazzz 2008 Joe McPhee / Lisle Ellis / Paul Plimley Sweet Freedom - Now What? Hatology 1994-2008 Since his earliest releases, ...
Joe McPhee Survival Unit I I I: Don't Postpone Joy!
by Glenn Astarita
This 2007 release for the Italy-based Tracce label presents saxophonist/trumpeter Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III improvisation group, which signifies the final moniker for the trio that was originally called The Alto Trio. The origination of the core trio, known as Survival Unit I, came to fruition during the '60s, sparked by themes centered upon social injustices ...
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Bridging the Future with the Past
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
There may not be a more creative group of artists anywhere within the boundaries of any art form than those within the Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet. These are individuals that comprehensively understand their responsibility to art and it is only through this level of integrity and creativity that art can, and will continue to move forward. ...
Joe McPhee: Tomorrow Came Today
by Lyn Horton
Music and talking are two modes of expression rooted in human communication. Most of the time, the audible distinction is clear. Sounds are sounds and words are words: the medium makes no difference in how one hears the instrumentality of either. In the context of improvisation, reed player Joe McPhee and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love challenge the ...
Anthony Braxton: The Complete Arista Recordings
by Clifford Allen
Anthony BraxtonThe Complete Arista RecordingsMosaic2008 Few artists in the realm of improvised music can claim as important or varied a series of recordings as reedman-composer Anthony Braxton did during his contract to Arista Records in the 1970s. With the financial backing provided by what was then an upstart ...
Tomorrow Came Today
By Joe McPhee
Label: Smalltown Supersound
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tomorrow Came Today; Go; Ibsen's Ghost; Build and Break; Acts of
Time; Sun and Steel; Body Sound; Crossing Messages.
Intimate Conversations
By Joe McPhee
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Was It Something I Said?; Maybe Not; I Would If I Could; Did God Forget Darfur/What God?; An Intimate Conversation #1; An Intimate Conversation #2; North Star (for Max Roach); An Intimate Conversation #3; Dom's Matrix; Snowflakes On Flowers; And Then; King to King's Bishop 3.
The Open Door
By Joe McPhee
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2008
Track listing:
01. Escape from the Shadows; 02. Freedom to Choose; 03. More Violets; 04. The Open Door; 05. Rainbow Crossing; 06. A Poetic
Resonance; 07. Variations on God Bless the Child. Musica di Joe McPhee e Dominic Duval.
Sweet Freedom - Now What?
By Joe McPhee
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mendacity (slow); Driva' Man; Roost 2; Self Portrait/Lift Every Voice and Sing; Singing With a Sword in My Hand; Roost 1; Garvey's Ghost; Approaching the Smoke That Thunders; Triptych: (Prayer/Protest)/Prolepsis; Mendacity (fast); A Head of the Heartbeat; The Persistence of Rosewood; Roost (Coda).
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