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The Watermelon Suite
By Joe McPhee
Label: CIMP Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Points, The Watermelon Suite: part 1- The Whole, part 2- The Rind, part 3- The Meat, Part 4- The Seeds, Wecotdo parts 1 & 2, Soundboard Safari, Solero, A Ballad in Their Own Way, Putter Piece, My Funny Valentine.
Recorded at the Spirit Room, Rossie, New York, May 26 & 27, 1998.
Available through Cadence/NorthCountry Distributors (www.cadencebuilding.com)
Joe McPhee/Dominic Duval/ Jay Rosen: Trio X: Rapture
by Derek Taylor
Back in the early days of free jazz improvisation many musicians who chose to play multiple instruments were singled out as scapegoats by critics interested in discrediting the music. The logic (or illogic) behind these naysayers’ arguments posited that a division of energy and focus between instruments would necessarily result in decreased proficiency. Many of the ...
Joe McPhee/Dominic Duval/Jay Rosen: Trio X: The Watermelon Suite
by Derek Taylor
This magnificent session is perhaps most unusual for McPhee’s decision to stick to only one the reeds in his bulging bag of instruments throughout its entire duration. Though he limits solely to soprano his creative muse isn’t compromised in the least thanks both to his own inventive genius and that of his able associates. “Points” is ...
Joe McPhee & Dominic Duval: The Dream Book
by Derek Taylor
Unlike Ellington celebrations, tributes to Ornette Coleman are a relative rarity. The disparity is interesting considering that many in creative improvised music circles regard Coleman’s radical innovations as of parallel importance to those of the Duke. McPhee and Duval go a long way towards rectifying this gap on this disc. Recorded live at the Knitting Factory ...
