Results for "Joe McPhee"

Joe McPhee: Tenor & Fallen Angels

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 2000

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
May 1, 2000

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 ...

McPhee/Whitecage/Smoker/Prentice/Kowald/Duval/Rosen: CIMPhonia, Parts 1 & 2

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2000

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 ...

Joe McPhee's Bluette: In the Spirit

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2000

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 ...

The Dream Book

By Joe McPhee

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 1999

CIMPhonia 1988 Part 2

By Joe McPhee

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 1999

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)

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)

The Brass City

By Joe McPhee

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 1999

Joe McPhee & Dominic Duval: The Dream Book

by Derek Taylor
November 1, 1999

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 ...