Joe McPhee and Fred Lonberg-HolmBond Chapel, University of Chicago Chicago, IL November 9, 2009 Saxophone player {{Joe McPhee = 9298}} and cellist {{Fred Lonberg-Holm = 16624}} have long been bandmates in Peter Brotzmann's Tentet, as well as in McPhee's Survival Unit III and in other groups formed during their mutual acquaintance. But never have the two had the opportunity to play with one another...
train (evan parker – joe mcphee duo @ the stone 10/7/09) Immediate train caught thought fully full – here there is no buried treasure – no ruinous voice – no mere reading of the score but as naked as the lunch I digested so long ago – devoured – piloted by the dead where the living cover us in stone, worn parch, shoe lace & loafing en fran chise ment. These can...
Evan Parker/Wu Fei/Joe McPhee The Stone October 7, 2009 John Zorn's intimate venue, The Stone, bases its calendar around selections made by invited curators, but few of them elect to actually perform on all dates of their given stint. The English saxophonist Evan Parker chose to appear at every gig of his two week residency, mostly in a duo setting, but occasionally expanding into a trio format. Audiences...
MONOCEROS 2 MONOCEROS 4 Evan Parker Monoceros Incus : 1978 EP, soprano sax. In the pantheon of saxophone colossi, there is a special place reserved for Evan Parker. Taking late Coltrane as his jumping off point, Parker has expanded the language of the saxophone as much as anyone over the past three decades. A central figure in the European Free Improv scene alonside [...]
If I weren't so friggin poor, I would quit my job just so I could see the Evan Parker and John Zorn duo tonight. Evan Parker is in the middle of his two week residency at the Stone, John Zorn's...
Jazz drummer Rashied Ali , who replaced Elvin Jones in Coltrane’s band, died on Wednesday. He was 74. The New York Times obituary is here . After his legendary free-jazz recordings with Trane, Rashied Ali collaborated with other outstanding avant-gardists such as Frank Lowe, Arthur Blythe, Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann, William Parker and James “Blood” Ulmer. Click here to hear...
Fun night at the Flying Duck. All went well, apart from my haunted turntable, which decided to speed up to 45 rpm of its own volition. I was powerless to act and had to hastily crossfade to another tune! Heavier on the beats than any set I've played before, and all the better for it. Thanks to Stewart and Caroline for having me. They asked me to write down my playlist, so here goes: Pastels/Tenniscoats...
CjR-7 In the many years that I’ve known Craig Johnson, his appetite for music — the kind one would expect to find among college students, debating the merits or lineage of any particular artist into the wee hours — remains insatiable, relieved perhaps by an expansive and steadily growing music and film collections, a neatly [...]
Michael Bisio Quartet live at Vision Fest. XII NotTwo 2009 Old Dog By Any Other Name Porter Records 2009 Michael Bisio/ George Muscatello/ Dean Sharp Collar City Creatology MJB Records 2008 Jack Gold-Molina Colored Houses Sol Disk 2009 Bob Gluck Trio Sideways FMR 2008...
Deftly combining the worlds of jazz, rock and noise (without falling into the dreaded "jazz fusion" territory), Bag It is something that anyone either curious about jazz or completely immersed in the genre should seek out ASAP.
Celebrating the art and sculpture of Angel Orensanz A Collaboration between Angel Orensanz Foundation and Arts for Art Bringing together Sound, Sculpture, Movement, Color all within the context of the artwork - projections and sculpture of Angel Orensanz 8:00 Trio X Joe McPhee - sax and trumpet Dominic Duval - bass Jay Rosen - drums...
In 1965, Joe McPhee met {{Donald Ayler = 11705}} by chance in a New York record store. Ayler asked McPhee to join him at a rehearsal where {{Albert Ayler = 3538}} would be, but unfortunately McPhee was unable to make the rehearsal. That missed opportunity triggered a powerful response in May 2000, when McPhee invited a group of musicians to join him for two concerts in France, entitling them The Albert...
-Maggot Brain is still the greatest guitar solo ever . -Joe McPhee in the late-1960s/early-1970s was as great as, if not better than, latter-day John Coltrane. -Even though Moon Pix and You Are Free are amazing, I’m really glad Cat Power cleaned up. -Gillian Welch needs to release a new album, now . -Willie Nelson's Teatro is one of the three most underrated albums of the 1990s.
Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love Tomorrow Came Today Smalltown Superjazzz 2008 Joe McPhee / Lisle Ellis / Paul Plimley Sweet Freedom - Now What? Hatology 1994-2008 Since his earliest releases, multi-instrumentalist {{Joe McPhee = 9298}} has favored that most intimate form of communication, the duet. His earliest duo recording was Pieces Of Light (1974) with synthesizer player John Snyder. Subsequently,...
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