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Tenor & Fallen Angels

By Joe McPhee

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 2000

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Joe McPhee: Tenor & Fallen Angels

by Glenn Astarita
May 1, 2000

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 ...

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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 ...