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McPhee/ Giardullo/ Bisio/ Duval: No Greater Love
by Derek Taylor
Recording sessions can sometimes be unruly beasts and the girth and breadth of music created does not always fit comfortably into the pre-planned parameters of studio time. Extra material in the way of alternate takes and additional tunes are the common outcome of a session that eclipses its originally hatched upon boundaries. Very often this grist ...
Joe McPhee: Tenor & Fallen Angels
by Robert Spencer
Joe McPhee is one of the pioneers of solo reed playing. While Coleman Hawkins and Eric Dolphy played occasional solo pieces, Anthony Braxton was the first musician to dedicate an entire album, For Alto, to solo reed explorations. Perhaps even more importantly, he was the first to develop a sonic vocabulary specifically dedicated to solo reed ...
Joe McPhee- Johnny McLellan: The Grand Marquis
by Derek Taylor
The Grand Marquis is a mythical hipster character of McPhee’s design who “wears the blues like a custom fitted suit.” Whether McPhee and the Marquis are one in the same is open to interpretation, but one thing is for certain. The two men are rife with common ground as McPhee covets the Blues and his passion ...
Joe McPhee: Nation Time
by Derek Taylor
Joe McPhee fans tend to be a loyal and devoted bunch. But one of the most frustrating things about digging McPhee’s music is the fact that much of it, especially the early stuff is out of print. His early albums have for far too long languished only in the hands of collectors and on the shelves ...
Joe McPhee: Tenor & Fallen Angels
by Glenn Astarita
Inspired by Anthony Braxton’s solo alto saxophone performance on the 1971 release, For Alto, Joe McPhee set his sights on a similar project which was recorded at a Swiss farmhouse on September 1st and 2nd, 1976 and was subsequently released on LP for Hat Hut records. Considered a mini-classic, “hatOLOGY” records has now reissued this sparkling ...
Joe McPhee's Bluette: In the Spirit
by Derek Taylor
Jazz and Blues are recognized widely as uniquely American art forms. At the root of both genres resides the African American spiritual song-form. Spirituals predate both Blues and Jazz and continue to be a life-sustaining force for both musical traditions. McPhee and his partners in Bluette fathom the primacy of this bloodline and use this date ...
McPhee/Whitecage/Smoker/Prentice/Kowald/Duval/Rosen: CIMPhonia, Parts 1 & 2
by Derek Taylor
These discs are the musical equivalent of a snowball effect, where a germinal idea gains momentum and breadth to blossom into an unanticipated climactic event. Originally planned as a trio date for Whitecage, Kowald and Duval, under the expert production hand of Bob Rusch the core group quickly gained girth both in terms of attendant players ...
Rapture
By Joe McPhee
Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Elegy: Upon Mourning, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Rapture.
Recorded: December 28, 1998, The Knitting Factory, New York City, NY.
Available through Cadence/NorthCountry Distributors (www.cadencebuilding.com)
