| 1 | Lower East Side Shout (for Alton Pickens) | 13:07 |
| 2 | Old Eyes (for Ornette Coleman) | 7:09 |
| 3 | 03 W.I.S. (for Warren Smith) | 6:33 |
| 4 | Soul Of A Poet (for Steve Dalachinsky) | 8:30 |
| 5 | Take the V Train | 6:27 |
It takes a certain amount of confidence for a musician to stand alone on a stage or in a recording studio and play an instrument. One of the few masters of jazz reed instruments, Joe McPhee still proceeds to make music as if for the first time. He is a master of the instruments he plays because, like an athlete, he maintains the physical chops as well as an openness to the application of the musical vocabulary he has cultivated over time.
The music was recorded at a live performance on May 4, 2009, at Local 269, a small club on the Lower East Side of New York City. And, for this performance, he chose to play two instruments rather than one: the alto sax and alto clarinet.
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Tracklisting:
1. Lower East Side Shout (for Alton Pickens) - 13:08
2. Old Eyes (for Ornette Coleman) - 6:40
3. W.I.S. (for Warren Smith) - 6:36
4. Soul Of A Poet (for Steve Dalachinsky) - 8:31
5. Take The V Train - 6:27
Available as a 320k MP3 or 16bit FLAC download.
Joe McPhee grew up in New York, is a multi-instrumentalist and plays since the late 60ties within the creative and free jazz music world. His play is energetic, demanding and breathtaking sensitive - still with over 80 years! He learnt to play trumpet as a kid and - inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Colemann - he thought himself saxophone in his thirties. McPhee's first recording was with Clifford Thornton in 1967 on the album "Freedom and Unity". He became involved and known in Europe in the midd 70ties and since the 90ties he also plays with a younger generation from Chicago and New York. He played/plays regular for example with Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen, Jeb Bishop, The Thing, Clifton Hyde, Jérôme Bourdellon, Raymond Boni, Joe Giardullo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_McPhee
