Joe McPhee

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Shakey Jake 13:33 Tools
Nation Time 18:27 Tools
Scorpio's Dance 08:40 Tools
Astral Spirits 10:47 Tools
Delta 16:16 Tools
Ionization 28:41 Tools
Violets for Pia 07:43 Tools
Cosmic Love 05:57 Tools
Harriet 13:35 Tools
Black Magic Man 06:25 Tools
Mine Shaft (Live) 06:25 Tools
Knox 08:34 Tools
Sweet Dragon 05:35 Tools
Underground Railroad 22:49 Tools
The Death Of Miles Davis 06:28 Tools
Tenor 23:26 Tools
Message from Denmark 13:39 Tools
Pablo 07:15 Tools
A Wish In One Hand 06:42 Tools
Hymn of the Dragon Kings 16:52 Tools
Ain't Nothin' But The Blues 05:30 Tools
Good-Bye Tom B. 06:34 Tools
Truth In The Abstract Blues 06:23 Tools
The Man I Love 06:47 Tools
Future Retrospective 07:03 Tools
As Serious As Your Life 1 09:11 Tools
I Remember Clifford 03:27 Tools
Haiku Study 1 04:43 Tools
After The Rain 05:22 Tools
Conlon In The Land Of Ra 05:10 Tools
Tok 02:27 Tools
E=Mc2 00:00 Tools
New Spiritual No. 1 14:23 Tools
As Serious As Your Life 2 03:21 Tools
Party Lights 01:02 Tools
Song for Laureen 09:14 Tools
Windy City Head Stompin' Blues 13:15 Tools
Shadow Sculptures 03:38 Tools
Voices 06:38 Tools
Windows In Dreams / Colors In Crystal 23:07 Tools
Justice (Evidence) 09:07 Tools
Song For Lauren 13:17 Tools
When You Hear Music 08:03 Tools
Age 10:47 Tools
Ann Kahlé 05:49 Tools
After It's Over 07:33 Tools
Fallen Angels 14:59 Tools
Cosmic Love Number Two 05:48 Tools
Spain Adios 12:57 Tools
Sound On Sound 06:30 Tools
Kalimba 00:52 Tools
Topology 28:40 Tools
Birmingham Sunday 25:41 Tools
It's Gone In The Air 11:59 Tools
Percussion Number Two 02:50 Tools
Pithecanthropus Erectus 10:33 Tools
Blues for New Chicago 05:34 Tools
Oleo (take 1) 05:26 Tools
Red Giant 03:08 Tools
You Can Never Capture It Again 07:14 Tools
Cerulean Mood Swing 06:36 Tools
Tenor saxophone solo number one 04:28 Tools
Soprano/Echoplex Number One 02:52 Tools
The Diagonal of Personal Excstasy 06:18 Tools
Episode One (For Don Cherry) 20:44 Tools
Cosmic Love Organ Alone 06:12 Tools
Percussion Number One 02:23 Tools
Improvisation # 1 06:48 Tools
Soprano/Echoplex Number Two 01:15 Tools
I Love You Too Little Baby 04:03 Tools
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No (Live) 04:03 Tools
Prologue / Twelve 09:13 Tools
Requiem for an Empty Heart 08:28 Tools
Tenor saxophone solo number two 04:58 Tools
Oleo (take 2) 04:40 Tools
Night Of The Krell 15:27 Tools
Was It Something I Said? 03:42 Tools
Soprano/Echoplex Number Three 03:14 Tools
Chirpin' Time 00:00 Tools
The Shape Of Blues To Come 09:24 Tools
Space Organ One 09:15 Tools
Episode Two (For Ornette Coleman) 21:03 Tools
Maybe Not 04:41 Tools
Space Organ Two 06:05 Tools
Before The Fall 33:36 Tools
Paradise Overcast (Live) 33:36 Tools
Bahamian Folksong 11:12 Tools
The Train And The River 00:00 Tools
Daisy Bones 02:46 Tools
Les Heros Sont Fatigues 07:41 Tools
Homeless 03:01 Tools
Mic Feedback One 01:21 Tools
Mic Feedback Two 01:21 Tools
Torcello (Live) 01:21 Tools
Good-Bye Tom B 06:33 Tools
Legendary Heroes 14:55 Tools
Klatu 08:44 Tools
Space Organ Three 06:18 Tools
ST. Ida's Breath (Less Her Neck and Teeth) [Live] 06:18 Tools
Goin' Home 04:36 Tools
A Forty Foot Square Room (Live) 04:36 Tools
Touchstone 12:14 Tools
Blue Trees in Wind 00:00 Tools
Improvisation # 2 09:12 Tools
Legend of the Three Blind Moose 07:03 Tools
Nenette 00:00 Tools
Trumpet 11:25 Tools
I Would If I Could 03:53 Tools
Recorded Solo Number One 06:24 Tools
Did God Forget Darfur/What God? 08:43 Tools
Anamorphosis 13:46 Tools
Announcement 1 00:33 Tools
Zigliara I 00:33 Tools
Zigliara II 00:00 Tools
Lazy Tones 00:00 Tools
Improvisation # 3 14:34 Tools
Oleo - Take 1 05:43 Tools
Give Them Their Flowers While They're Here 00:00 Tools
Finger Snapper 01:53 Tools
Alternate Diagonals 00:30 Tools
Old Eyes 08:54 Tools
A Portrait Of Juanita 03:05 Tools
Little Big Foot 00:00 Tools
Say That To Say This 05:14 Tools
The Train And The River (Last Train To Pougskeepsie) 00:00 Tools
Improvisation 1 05:45 Tools
La Vie Continue 00:00 Tools
Exuma 04:23 Tools
Improvisation # 4 14:51 Tools
Slow Glow 00:00 Tools
Announcement 2 00:35 Tools
An Intimate Conversation #1 05:45 Tools
Oleo 05:26 Tools
Eleuthera 10:21 Tools
Graphics 2/4 08:46 Tools
Greens Crossing Greens 07:12 Tools
An Intimate Conversation #2 04:48 Tools
Ghosts 00:30 Tools
North Star (For Max Roach) 03:14 Tools
Improvisation # 5 07:54 Tools
Dom's Matrix 05:09 Tools
An Intimate Conversation #3 11:01 Tools
Announcement 3 00:33 Tools
The Blood of a Martyr 08:05 Tools
Tenor #2 06:46 Tools
If I Don't Fall 05:47 Tools
Graphics 3-4 12:14 Tools
Red & Green Alternatives 10:59 Tools
From Eremite to Termite 04:06 Tools
Spaces 09:26 Tools
Improvisation 2 05:09 Tools
Nagoya Harp (inspired/informed by Harry Partch/Lukas Foss/John Snyder) 12:54 Tools
Untitled 08:16 Tools
Eroc Tinu 04:02 Tools
A-Configuration 08:24 Tools
Tipping Point 10:22 Tools
Glasses 18:22 Tools
Episode One: Wind / Water (For Don Cherry) 20:44 Tools
Home at Last 07:14 Tools
Wind Cycles 07:14 Tools
And Then 05:00 Tools
No Line 03:05 Tools
Blue Coat, Blue Collar 10:49 Tools
Footprints 10:25 Tools
Improvisation 4 06:46 Tools
The Redwood Rag 08:44 Tools
Theme From Episode #3 05:26 Tools
Naima 08:05 Tools
Ol' Man River 09:19 Tools
Snowflakes on Flowers 10:59 Tools
Strings 07:12 Tools
Love Is (Like Walking Naked on a Razor Blade) 03:26 Tools
Announcement 1 - Live 04:20 Tools
Little Piece 1 02:05 Tools
Angels, Devils And Haints 05:47 Tools
Little Piece 2 02:20 Tools
What We Do 06:46 Tools
Improvisation 3 06:39 Tools
DJango 14:28 Tools
Re-hairing in zaporozhye 14:28 Tools
Recorder solo number one 06:24 Tools
God Bless the Child 11:45 Tools
Episode Two: Earth / Fire / Old Eyes (For Ornette Coleman) 03:26 Tools
Deep River 09:33 Tools
Tenor Solo 11:45 Tools
Oleo - Take 2 05:29 Tools
Little Piece 3 02:16 Tools
Improvisation 6 06:39 Tools
Improvisation 5 08:05 Tools
Song for Cecil 08:05 Tools
Land Dance A 03:02 Tools
Land Dance B 03:16 Tools
Evocation 14:35 Tools
Response Ability Part I 00:30 Tools
Little Piece 4 02:01 Tools
Little Piece 5 02:16 Tools
Linear B 04:39 Tools
Tenor, No. 2 06:46 Tools
Memorium 03:16 Tools
The Looking Glass I 16:01 Tools
loweville 16:01 Tools
Land Dance D 03:22 Tools
A Night on Rose Mountain 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Came Today 00:30 Tools
Go 01:40 Tools
Here's That Rainy Day 02:16 Tools
Never Before 10:59 Tools
New Potatoes 15:19 Tools
Land Dance C 03:11 Tools
Black Magic Man - Live 01:40 Tools
Rotation 06:39 Tools
Imagine A World Without Art 09:59 Tools
Prologue/Twelve 09:13 Tools
Improvisation 7 08:16 Tools
Love Life 09:59 Tools
Ibsen's Ghost 01:40 Tools
Never Again 08:05 Tools
Graphics 3/4 12:14 Tools
Come Sunday 08:44 Tools
Beanstalk 17:04 Tools
Build and Break 13:33 Tools
In Order To Hear 08:07 Tools
Episode #2 08:16 Tools
Not Yet 08:16 Tools
Old Eyes (for Ornette Coleman) 07:35 Tools
Shadow Sculptures (feat. John Snyder) 14:35 Tools
Acts of Time 13:33 Tools
The Death of Miles Davis - Remastered 14:35 Tools
Vieux CarreStraight 07:00 Tools
July The 13th 02:25 Tools
The Gift (For Donald Ayler) 08:16 Tools
SPRING STREET 04:13 Tools
To rush at the wind 04:13 Tools
Response Ability Part II 04:06 Tools
Crossing Messages 07:00 Tools
Roost 1 02:25 Tools
J2 05:43 Tools
King to King's Bishop 3 05:09 Tools
Up, Over, And Out 15:19 Tools
Scorpio's Dance (live) 04:15 Tools
Motian Studies 07:32 Tools
Milestones 05:29 Tools
Mythos 00:30 Tools
My Funny Valentine 06:48 Tools
Improvisation 8 03:26 Tools
Cold Sweat 06:40 Tools
Vieux Carre 04:11 Tools
Trading Space 03:26 Tools
In Finland 05:09 Tools
Scorpio`s Dance 08:42 Tools
'Round Midnight 05:05 Tools
Song for Lauren, Alternate 1 03:13 Tools
Contemplation 01:40 Tools
Announcement 2 - Live 04:20 Tools
Vieux Darre - Straight 07:00 Tools
What Can We Do'? 01:40 Tools
Without clothes it's a different conversation (let's get naked) 01:40 Tools
Bag's Groove 07:03 Tools
Nagoya Harp (Inspired/Informed By Harry Parch/Lukas/John Snyder) 14:30 Tools
Everything Happens for a Reason 00:30 Tools
Roost 2 03:26 Tools
Set 1 03:26 Tools
A Wish in One Hand - Remastered 05:43 Tools
Sun and Steel 13:33 Tools
Make A Cricle 07:35 Tools
Hymn for the Dargon Kings 23:07 Tools
Song for Lauren, Alternate 2 06:00 Tools
Breakaway Theme 05:29 Tools
Emancipation Proclamation 14:30 Tools
A Head of the Heartbeat 08:44 Tools
First Movement- Quantum Singularity 07:00 Tools
Improvisation 9 23:07 Tools
Cries and Whispers 18:37 Tools
Second Movement: If I Had Drunk an Entire Bottle of Scotch, I Still Wouldn't Have Understood Fucking Thing You Said 05:29 Tools
The Persistence Of Rosewood 07:00 Tools
First Movement: Quantum Singularity 04:11 Tools
Crossing The Bridge 04:11 Tools
Nation Time - Live 04:20 Tools
Graphics 2-4 08:46 Tools
Set 2, Part A 07:00 Tools
Song for Lauren - Live 05:38 Tools
Body Sound 05:38 Tools
Baby Talk 08:46 Tools
Yeah, And? 07:32 Tools
Tekla Loo 06:00 Tools
As Serious as Your Life 2 - Remastered 06:00 Tools
Ice Blu 06:00 Tools
Women's Mysteries - Woman of Passion 03:13 Tools
Variations On A Blue Line (After A Theme For Knox) 06:40 Tools
Women's Mysteries - Woman of Skies 05:28 Tools
The Man I Love - Remastered 06:40 Tools
Announcement 3 - Live 01:40 Tools
Part I B 05:05 Tools
Fourth Movement- Visionary Heart Song 18:37 Tools
Third Movement: Counterflow 04:11 Tools
Mother Africa (for Miriam Makeba) 17:07 Tools
Second Movement- If I Had Drunk 18:37 Tools
Third Movement- Counterflow 06:40 Tools
Hate Crime Cries 03:13 Tools
Set 2, Part B 03:13 Tools
Garvey's Ghost 14:30 Tools
Improvisation 10 24:12 Tools
Sunshower 14:51 Tools
Haiku Study 1 - Remastered 06:00 Tools
Windows In Dreams/Colors In Crystal 23:07 Tools
Song for Lauren, alt 2 23:07 Tools
Women's Mysteries - Woman of Darkness 00:30 Tools
The Witch 04:11 Tools
Spirit Cry 04:11 Tools
Fourth Movement: Visionary Heart Song 14:51 Tools
Fifth Movement: Closing Time 01:40 Tools
Fifth Movement- Closing Time 06:40 Tools
Baliamian Folksong 18:37 Tools
For Panama, Pt. 1-2 18:37 Tools
Dark Matter (1st part) 13:33 Tools
Who The Fuck 02:36 Tools
Ain't Nothin but the Blues - Remastered 01:40 Tools
Message from Denmark - Live 07:00 Tools
As Serious as Your Life - Remastered 01:40 Tools
Mendacity (Slow) 06:40 Tools
Too Much Fun 01:40 Tools
Angles And Other Aliens 08:46 Tools
Louie Louie 05:38 Tools
Women's Mysteries - Woman of Lotus 04:11 Tools
Take the V Train 04:11 Tools
Sixth Movement: Evocations / Variations 01:40 Tools
Sixth Movement- On a Prayer 01:40 Tools
Part I C 08:46 Tools
Sixth Movement: On a Prayer 01:40 Tools
Sixth Movement- Evocations - Variations 06:00 Tools
Part II B 08:46 Tools
Approaching The Smoke That Thunders 08:46 Tools
Vieux Carré/Straight 06:00 Tools
Part II A 06:40 Tools
Dark Matter (2nd part) 06:40 Tools
Conlon in the Land of Ra - Remastered 01:40 Tools
Make A Circle 24:12 Tools
Singing With A Sword In My Hand 06:40 Tools
Angels and Other Aliens 24:12 Tools
Part II D 04:20 Tools
Ice Blue 00:30 Tools
Shakey Jake (Druh Sławek Edit) 09:54 Tools
The Nut 14:51 Tools
Mendacity [Slow] 04:34 Tools
Blue Coronet 04:34 Tools
The Looking Glass I - Live 13:33 Tools
New Music America interview 14:51 Tools
For Giuseppi Logan 14:51 Tools
New Voices 14:51 Tools
Woman Of Lotus 00:30 Tools
I Can't Find My Mind 14:51 Tools
Tok - Remastered 14:51 Tools
Part II C 01:40 Tools
Party Lights - Remastered 01:40 Tools
Driva Man 04:20 Tools
You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me 05:29 Tools
Graphics ¾ 05:38 Tools
Guts 01:40 Tools
EIGHT STREET AND AVENUE C (For Alton Pickens) 01:40 Tools
01 The Death of Miles Davis 05:29 Tools
Knox (For Niklaus Troxler) 05:29 Tools
Flowers (For John Tchicai) 01:40 Tools
214 Martense 01:40 Tools
Deep Sheep 01:40 Tools
Putnam Central 01:40 Tools
In Lieu of Flowers 01:40 Tools
After the Rain - Remastered 13:33 Tools
Driva' Man 01:40 Tools
No Greater Love 01:40 Tools
Something Sweet, Something Tender 14:51 Tools
Skullduggery 01:40 Tools
The Looking Glass 1 01:40 Tools
Roost (Coda) 14:51 Tools
Nancy 05:38 Tools
Les Héros Sont Fatigués 07:41 Tools
The Magican 07:41 Tools
Part II. Michael's Cipher 05:29 Tools
Part III. Red Enchantment (For Joe McPhee, Sr.) 07:40 Tools
04 As Serious As Your Life 1 07:40 Tools
Untitled [Live] 05:29 Tools
02 A Wish In One Hand 05:29 Tools
03 Ain't Nothin' But the Blues 05:29 Tools
Anamorphosis (Dedicated To John Coltrane) 13:48 Tools
THE WHISTLER (For Mark Whitecage) 13:48 Tools
the Night Bird's Call (for julius Hemphill) 13:48 Tools
For Adrienne P. 13:48 Tools
For Fred Anderson 13:48 Tools
For Muhammad Ali 13:48 Tools
Lonely Woman 05:29 Tools
Third Circle (For Anthony Braxton) 05:29 Tools
Blues for Chicago 05:34 Tools
Cbjc 05:34 Tools
A Forty Foot Square Room 05:34 Tools
Episode II: Peekskill (1949) 2nd Movement: August 27th 00:30 Tools
Improvisation #2 09:12 Tools
Improvisation #1 06:48 Tools
Episode III: For Paul: At the Peace Arch 13:33 Tools
Episode II: Peekskill (1949) 1st Movement: Prelude 04:41 Tools
Episode I: Renaissance Harlem Spiritual 05:29 Tools
Improvisation #5 07:54 Tools
Improvisation #4 14:51 Tools
Mendacity (Fast) 14:51 Tools
Variations On Remembrance 05:29 Tools
A Night On Rose Mountain (Intro) 14:51 Tools
Vieux Carre/Straight 07:00 Tools
It's Gonne In The Air 11:51 Tools
Episode I: Renaissance Harlem Spiritual 11:51 Tools
Harriet (Dedicated To Harriet Tubman) 05:29 Tools
Variations on a Blue Line 05:29 Tools
Dancing On The Wolf Road 05:29 Tools
Nation Time (Live) 05:29 Tools
A2a - Land Dance (P / G /G) 05:29 Tools
10 After the Rain 05:29 Tools
05 Haiku Study 1 05:29 Tools
A2d - Land Dance (TS / TS) 05:29 Tools
07 The Man I Love 05:29 Tools
A2b - Land Dance (BCL / Cello) 05:29 Tools
11 Party Lights 05:29 Tools
08 Tok 05:29 Tools
Sweet Dragon (Dedicated To Marc Levin) 05:29 Tools
Matter Of The Heart 05:29 Tools
For Jim Pepper 05:29 Tools
06 Conlon in the Land of Ra 05:29 Tools
09 As Serious As Your Life 2 05:29 Tools
Lower East Side Shout (for Alton Pickens) 05:29 Tools
I See You Baby Shakin' That Ass 05:29 Tools
Episode II: Peekskill (1949) 3rd Movement: September 4th 07:03 Tools
Nagoya Harp 07:03 Tools
Here And Now 07:03 Tools
Ain't Nothin but the Blues 07:03 Tools
Side A 07:03 Tools
Muntu 07:03 Tools
Soul of a Poet 13:33 Tools
as serious as your life 07:03 Tools
Self Portrait/Lift Every Voice And Sing 07:03 Tools
Roost [Coda] 00:40 Tools
Message From Denmark (Dedicated To Denmark Vesey) 13:33 Tools
Variations On Nation Time 13:33 Tools
Dewey's Do 13:33 Tools
Harriet - Live 13:33 Tools
Prologue / Twelve (feat. John Snyder) 13:33 Tools
Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry) 13:33 Tools
A Future Retrospective 13:33 Tools
People Get Ready 13:33 Tools
Nagoya Harp (Inspired/informed by Harry Partch / Lukas Foss / John Snyder) 13:33 Tools
Soft Circles 13:33 Tools
E.P. 13:33 Tools
Ann Kahle' 13:33 Tools
Double Ten 13:33 Tools
Dark Doings 13:33 Tools
Deep Sleep 11:51 Tools
Ferocious Beauty 07:00 Tools
Get That Name 07:00 Tools
Birmingham Sunday/Morning Song/Lament/Hymn of the Dragon Kings 07:00 Tools
Intimate Conversations 07:00 Tools
There Was a Flower Near Napoli 07:00 Tools
Not Absolute 07:00 Tools
War Criminals 07:00 Tools
Sex Toys 07:00 Tools
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Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional jazz. Clifford Thornton ’s Freedom and Unity , recorded in 1967 and released in 1969 on the Third World label, is the first recording on which McPhee appears. In 1968, he began playing the saxophone and since then has investigated a wide range of instruments (including pocket trumpet, clarinet, valve trombone, and piano), with active involvement in both acoustic and electronic music. McPhee’s first recordings as leader appeared on the CjR label, founded in 1969 by painter Craig Johnson . These include Underground Railroad by the Joe McPhee Quartet in 1969, Nation Time by Joe McPhee in 1970, and Trinity by Joe McPhee, Harold E. Smith and Mike Kull in 1971. By 1974, Swiss entrepreneur Werner X. Uehlinger had become aware of McPhee’s recordings and unreleased tapes. Uehlinger was so impressed that he decided to form the Hat Hut label as a vehicle to release McPhee’s work. The label’s first LP was Black Magic Man , which had been recorded by McPhee in 1970. Black Magic Man was followed by The Willisau Concert and the landmark solo recording Tenor , released by Hat Hut in 1976. The earliest recordings by McPhee are often informed by the revolutionary movements of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s; for example, Nation Time is a tribute to poet Amiri Baraka and Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II at WBAI’s Free Music Store, 1971 (finally released as a Hat Art CD in 1996) is a sometimes anguished post- Coltrane cry for freedom and liberation. As the 1980s began and with a number of Hat Art recordings under his belt, McPhee met composer, accordionist, performer, and educator Pauline Oliveros , whose theories of “deep listening” strengthened his interests in extended instrumental and electronic techniques. McPhee also read Edward de Bono ’s book Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity, which presents concepts for solving problems by “disrupting an apparent sequence and arriving at the solution from another angle.” de Bono ’s theories inspired McPhee to apply this “sideways thinking” to his own work in creative improvisation, resulting in the concept of “Po Music.” McPhee describes “Po Music” as a “process of provocation” that can be used to “move from one fixed set of ideas in an attempt to discover new ones.” He concludes “It is a Positive, Possible, Poetic Hypothesis.” The results of McPhee’s application of Po principles to creative improvisation can be heard on several Hat Art recordings, including Topology , Linear B , and Oleo & a Future Retrospective . Although his work was well documented on Hat Hut, McPhee remained a relative unknown in his home country. During the 1990’s, McPhee finally began to attract wider attention from the North American creative jazz community. He has since been performing and recording prodigiously as both leader and collaborator, appearing on such labels as CIMP, Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo. In 1996, 20 years after Tenor , Hatology released As Serious As Your Life , another solo recording (this time featuring McPhee performing on various instruments). McPhee also began a fruitful relationship with Chicago reedman Ken Vandermark , engaging in a set of improvisational dialogues with Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler on the 1998 Okkadisk CD A Meeting in Chicago . The Vandermark connection also led to McPhee’s appearance on the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet three-CD box set released by Okkadisk that same year. As the 1990s drew to a close, McPhee discovered two like-minded improvisers in bassist Dominic Duval and drummer Jay Rosen . The trio premiered at the Vision Jazz Festival, but the concert went unnoticed by the press; McPhee, Duval , and Rosen therefore decided that an apt title for the group would be Trio X . A number of Trio X recordings, have since been released on the CIMP and CADENCE JAZZ RECORDS labels, and the band has received favorable critical notice for these, as well as for its live concert and festival appearances. With a career now spanning over 37 years and more than 60 recordings, Joe McPhee has shown that emotional content and theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible — and in fact, a critically important pairing — in the world of creative improvised music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.