Ticonderoga has an irresistible backstory. Jamie Saft and Joe Morris discovered a mutual love for John Coltrane’s much-maligned 1966 album Live at the Village Vanguard … Read More “Joe McPhee/Jamie Saft/Joe Morris/Charles Downs: Ticonderoga”
Multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten have been collaborating for the better part of a decade, chiefly through McPhee’s work with Flaten’s … Read More “Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten : Brooklyn DNA”
For any bandleader, it is a challenge to pull together a group whose members work well with each other, especially as an improvising unit. Polish … Read More “Joe McPhee, Mikolaj Trzaska, Waclaw Zimpel, Paweł Szamburski, Michael Górczyński: Lark Uprising”
The story goes that Mikolaj Trzaska, a longtime fan of McPhee, sought out Trio X at a performance in Krakow in 2006 to ask if … Read More “Joe McPhee, Mikolaj Trzaska, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen: Magic”
Recorded live at the Alchemia Club in Krakow, Poland, The Damage Is Done holds two uncut sets from four heavy-hitting improvisers: trumpeter and reedist Joe … Read More “Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerang: The Damage Is Done”
On a three-week European tour in the fall of 2008, tenor sax-man Joe McPhee, drummer Warren Smith, bassist William Parker and trumpeter Roy Campbell traveled … Read More “Joe McPhee/Roy Campbell/William Parker/Warren Smith: Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo”
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