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Voices: 10 Improvisations
By Joe McPhee
Label: Mode Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Improvisation 1; Improvisation 2; Improvisation 3; Improvisation 4; Improvisation 5; Improvisation 6; Improvisation 7; Improvisation 8; Improvisation 9; Improvisation 10.
Magic: Joe McPhee with Trio X and Mikolaj Trzaska at Firehouse 12 in New Haven
by Lyn Horton
MagicFirehouse 12New Haven, ConnecticutOctober 31, 2008 The wonder of magic is captured in transformation: witnessing how seemingly disparate elements merge and evolve into something greater than its parts with an impact that is unexpected and glistens with beauty. That Joe McPhee so aptly named the combination of Trio X ...
Joe McPhee / Lisle Ellis / Paul Plimley: Sweet Freedom - Now What?
by Chris May
The older you grow, the more conservative you get and the safer the parameters you set yourself; or so conventional wisdom has it. Now within a whisker of his 70th birthday, multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee doesn't so much defy the cliche as explode it; still stretching his music, still protesting against injustice. Sweet ...
Joe McPhee: "Sweet Freedom - Now What?" On Hatology
Joe McPhee: tenor & soprano saxophones and alto clarinet; Lisle Ellis" double bass; Paul Plimley: piano. Sweet Freedom - Now What? Hatology 602 “A Timeless Protest, Updated" 14 years have passed since the recording of Sweet Freedom - Now What? Today the world is a very different and infinitely more dangerous place. The Berlin ...
Joe McPhee - Dominic Duval: The Open Door
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l’omaggio al padre del free jazz - The Dream Book era dedicato alla musica di Ornette Coleman - arriva il tributo a Jackie McLean, contraltista che pur senza le stimmate del genio, ha dato un contributo importante agli sviluppi della musica afroamericana. E sia allora, era il 1998, sia in questo The Open Door esattamente ...
Joe McPhee and Friends: Directed Improvisation at RUCMA, New York City
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 ...
Joe McPhee: Voices: 10 Improvisations
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 ...
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 ...
Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company
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 ...
Joe McPhee: Intimate Conversations
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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