Review by Thom Jurek Trinity is the second installment of Joe McPhee's early work that's been re-released in Atavistic's wonderful Unheard Music series of extremely worthy yet rarely noted music originally recorded on LP. The first was the widely acclaimed Nation Time. This trio date from 1971 follows that recording chronologically. After Nation Time, McPhee's bassist Tyrone Crabb left the band to pursue "political ambitions," and McPhee was frustrated in his attempt to find a replacement. He hung it up. Good thing. Trinity, originally on the CjR label,… read more
Review by Thom Jurek Trinity is the second installment of Joe McPhee's early work that's been re-released in Atavistic's wonderful Unh… read more
Review by Thom Jurek Trinity is the second installment of Joe McPhee's early work that's been re-released in Atavistic's wonderful Unheard Music series of extremely worthy… read more
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… read more
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… read more
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 theoreticia… read more