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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: The Watermelon Suite

by Derek Taylor
November 1, 1999

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 ...