Joe McPhee at Moers Festival 2010 05N2690

Joe McPhee at the Empty Bottle in Chicago in 2004

Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...

multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, the

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

and the

valve trombone The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although it has been built in sizes from alto to contrabass, it is the tenor valve trombone pitched ...

. Although born in

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, McPhee grew up in

Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie ( ) is a city within the Town of Poughkeepsie, New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie is in the Hudson River Valley region, midway between the core of the New ...

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. He is most notable for his

free jazz Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventi ...

work done from the late 1960s to the present day.

Life and career

McPhee was born in

Miami Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...

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, on November 3, 1939. He began playing trumpet when he was eight, before learning other instruments. He played in various high school and then military bands before starting his recording career. His first recording came in 1967, when he appeared on the

Clifford Thornton Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, political activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s. Career Clifford was born in Phil ...

album entitled ''Freedom and Unity''. McPhee taught himself saxophone at the age of 32 after experiencing the music of

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century musi ...

Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. After early experience playing rhythm and blues and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Ho ...

, and

Ornette Coleman Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Ja ...

. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, McPhee lectured on jazz music at

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. In 1975, Werner Uehlinger started the

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label

Hathut Records Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, ...

with the specific intent of showcasing McPhee's music. In the 1980s, McPhee met

Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...

, began studying her musical theories, and worked with her

Deep Listening Band The Deep Listening Band (DLB) was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros (accordion, "expanded instrument system", composition), Stuart Dempster (trombone, didjeridu, composition) and Panaiotis (vocals, electronics, composer). David Gamper (keyboard ...

. He has not yet signed with any major label in his native

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, and was possibly better known throughout Europe than his native country until the 1990s. His 1996 album ''As Serious As Your Life'', which takes its title from the jazz book by

Val Wilmer Valerie Sybil Wilmer (born 7 December 1941) is a British photographer and writer specialising in jazz, gospel, blues, and British African-Caribbean music and culture. Her notable books include ''Jazz People'' (1970) and ''As Serious As Your Life ...

, is "arguably the finest of his solo recordings", according to the

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review. Jazz musicians with whom McPhee has recorded or performed include

Ken Vandermark Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964) is an American composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene since the 1990s, Vandermark has earned wide critical praise for his playing and his multilayered composit ...

Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023) was a German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist regarded as a central and pioneering figure in European free jazz. Throughout his career, he released over fifty albums as a bandleader. Amongst his m ...

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

Mats Gustafsson Mats Olof Gustafsson (born 29 October 1964) is a Swedish free jazz saxophone player. Career Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986), as member of Gunter Chris ...

Jeb Bishop Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player. Biography Bishop grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern Universit ...

, The Thing,

Clifton Hyde Clifton Hyde (born November 27, 1976) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer currently working from and residing in Nashville. He has composed multiple film scores and is a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Miles Doleac. ...

, Jérôme Bourdellon, Raymond Boni, and Joe Giardullo. Since 1998, McPhee,

Dominic Duval Dominic Duval (April 27, 1945 – July 22, 2016) was an American classical and free jazz bassist. Biography Duval's was born in New York City. His father Dominic Duval Sr. was a bassist. At Eastman School of Music, Duval double majored in C ...

, and

Jay Rosen Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956) is an associate professor of journalism at New York University. He is a contributor to '' De Correspondent'' and a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board of Directors. Biography Rosen received his under ...

have performed and recorded as Trio X. In the 1990s Dominique Eade and McPhee had a jazz ensemble called Naima. McPhee has written reviews and commentary for ''

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''. In 2005, McPhee was awarded the Resounding Vision Award by Nameless Sound. In 2015, McPhee played a series of 50th anniversary concerts with Canadian noise pioneers

Nihilist Spasm Band The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a Canadian noise band formed in 1965 in London, Ontario. The term " spasm band" refers to a band that uses homemade instruments. Most of the NSB's instruments are modifications of other instruments, or wholly ...

in three Canadian cities.

Discography

* ''

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'' (CjR, 1969) * '' Nation Time'' (CjR, 1971) * '' Black Magic Man'' ( HatHut, 1971

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* '' At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971'' (HatHut, 1971

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* ''

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'' (CjR, 1972) with Harold E. Smith and Mike Kull * ''

Pieces of Light ''Pieces of Light'' is the first studio album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee (with John Snyder on synthesizers) recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005.The Willisau Concert ''The Willisau Concert'' is a live album by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, recorded in 1975 in Switzerland. It was the second album released on the Swiss Jazz label HatHut.

'' (HatHut, 1976) featuring John Snyder and

Makaya Ntshoko Makaya Ntshoko (29 September 1939 – 27 August 2024) was a South African drummer. Biography Makaya Ntshoko was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on 29 October 1939. He grew up in Langa, South Africa, Langa. He played with Dollar Brand's trio i ...

* ''

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'' (HatHut, 1977) – rereleased as ''Tenor & Fallen Angels'' in 2000 * ''

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'' (HatHut, 1976

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* ''

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'' (HatHut, 1977

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* '' Variations on a Blue Line'' (HatHut, 1977

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* ''

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'' (HatHut, 1977

* '' MFG in Minnesota'' (HatHut, 1978) with Milo Fine and Steve Gnitka * '' Old Eyes'' (HatHut, 1980) – rereleased as ''Old Eyes and Mysteries'' in 1992 * '' Tales and Prophecies '' (HatHut, 1981) with André Jaume * ''

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'' (HatHut, 1981) * '' Oleo'' (Hat Hut, 1982) – rereleased as ''Oleo & A Future Retrospective'' in 1993 * '' Visitation'' (Sackville, 1985) with the Bill Smith Ensemble * ''Songs and Dances'' (CELP, 1987) with André Jaume and Raymond Boni * ''

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'' (Hat Hut, 1990) * ''

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'' (In Situ, 1991) with Daunik Lazro * '' Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre'' (CELP, 1992) * ''

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'' (

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, 1994

with

Rashied Ali Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009), was an American free jazz and Avant-garde jazz, avant-garde drummer who was best known for performing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life. Biography Earl ...

, Borah Bergman, and

Wilber Morris Wilber Morris (November 27, 1937 - August 8, 2002) was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris.

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Wilber Morris recorded widely, and performed with su ...

* '' Sweet Freedom - Now What?'' (

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, 1995) with

Lisle Ellis Lisle Ellis, (born November 17, 1951) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer who is known for his improvisational style and use of electronics. Biography Ellis was born in Campbell River, British Columbia. Ellis began playing electric bass in ...

and

Paul Plimley Paul Horace Plimley (16 March 1953 – 18 May 2022) was a free jazz pianist and vibraphonist. He was one of the doyens of the Canadian jazz avant-garde, a co-founder of the New Orchestra Workshop Society and frequent collaborator with the bassis ...

* '' McPhee/Parker/Lazro'' (Vand'Oeuvre, 1995

with

and Daunik Lazro * '' Common Threads'' (Deep Listening, 1995) * '' A Meeting in Chicago'' (Eighth Day Music, 1996

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with

and

Kent Kessler Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957) is an American jazz double-bassist. Career Although born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kessler grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone at age ten. When he was thirteen, he moved with his f ...

* '' As Serious As Your Life'' (Hat Hut, 1996) * '' Legend Street One'' (

CIMP Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label. It is associated with ''Cadence'' magazine and Cadence Jazz Records. The label is noted for its minimal use of electronic pr ...

, 1996) * '' Legend Street Two'' (CIMP, 1996) * '' Inside Out'' (CIMP, 1996) with David Prentice * '' Finger Wrigglers'' (CIMP, 1996) with

Michael Bisio Michael Bisio (March 4, 1955 Troy, New York, Troy, New York) is an American jazz double bassist, composer, and bandleader. Since 2009 he has been the bassist for the Matthew Shipp Trio. Bisio appears on over 100 CDs, leading on 12 CDs and co-l ...

* ''

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'' (Boxholder, 1997 001 with Joe Giardullo * ''

The Brass City ''The Brass City'' is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with trombonist Jeb Bishop recorded in 1997 and first released on the Okka Disk label.

'' (

Okka Disk Okka Disk is an independent American jazz record company and label founded in Chicago by Bruno Johnson in 1994. Okka began as a rock music label, but Johnson soon changed direction to record free jazz.

, 1997

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with

* '' Chicago Tenor Duets'' (Okka Disk, 1998

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with

* '' Zebulon'' (CIMP, 1998

with

* '' The Dream Book'' ( Cadence Jazz, 1998

with

* ''Soprano '' (Roaratorio, 1998 In the Spirit'' (CIMP, 1999) * ''No Greater Love (album)">No Greater Love'' (CIMP, 1999 [2000">No_Greater_Lo.html" ;"title="In the Spirit (Joe McPhee album)">In the Spirit'' (CIMP, 1999) * ''No Greater Love (album)">No Greater Love'' (CIMP, 1999 [2000 * ''Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom'' (Okka Disk, 1999 [2000]) with Hamid Drake * ''Grand Marquis (album), Grand Marquis'' (Boxholder, 1999) with Johnny McLellan * ''Manhattan Tango'' (Label Usine, 2000

004 004, 0O4, O04, OO4 may refer to: * 004, fictional British 00 Agent * 0O4, Corning Municipal Airport (California) * O04, the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation * Abdul Haq Wasiq, Guantanamo detainee 004 * Junkers Jumo 004 turbojet engine * La ...

with Jérôme Bourdellon * '' Port of Saints'' (CjR, 2000

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with

, Raymond Boni and

* '' Voices & Dreams'' (Emouvance, 2000 001 with Raymond Boni * ''Angels, Devils & Haints '' (CjR, 2000

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with Michael Bisio, Dominic Duval, Claude Tchamitian and Paul Rogers * ''

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with Michael Bisio, Raymond Boni and Paul Harding * '' Tales Out of Time'' (Hat Hut, 2002

with

* ''A Parallax View'' (Slam, 2003

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with Paul Hession * ''Between'' (Ohrai, 2003) with Sato Makoto * ''Everything Happens for a Reason'' (Roaratorio, 2003

* '' In Finland'' (Cadence Jazz, 2004

with

Matthew Shipp Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Early life and education Shipp was raised in Wilmington, Delaware. His mother was a friend of trumpeter Clifford Brown. He began playing ...

and Dominic Duval * ''Next To You'' (Emouvance, 2004

with Raymond Boni, Daunik Lazro and Claude Tchamitchian * ''

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'' (Okkadisk, 2005) with Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler and

Michael Zerang Michael Zerang (born November 16, 1958) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. Career Zerang's parents both emigrated to the United States from the Middle East; his father is Iranian and his mother Iraqi.Mode Mode ( meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to: Arts and entertainment * MO''D''E (magazine), a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine * ''Mode'' magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting fo ...

, 2006

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with John Heward * ''Red Morocco ''(2006) *''Tomorrow Came Today'' ( Smalltown Superjazz, 2007) with

Paal Nilssen-Love Paal Nilssen-Love (born 24 December 1974) is a Norwegian drummer and composer in the jazz, free jazz and free improvisation genres. (in Norwegian) Early life Nilssen-Love was born in Molde, Norway. His parents ran a jazz club in Stavanger, and h ...

*''Alto'' (Roaratorio, 2009) *''Magic'' (Not Two, 2009) with Mikołaj Trzaska, Dominic Duval and

*''The Damage Is Done'' (Not Two, 2009) with Peter Brötzmann, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang *''Blue Chicago Blues'' (Not Two, 2010) with

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (born 23 September 1971 in Oppdal Municipality, Norway) is a Norwegian double bass, bassist active in the jazz and free jazz genres. (in Norwegian) Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) Career Flaten played electric ba ...

*''Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Suite)'' ( NoBusiness, 2011) with Michael Zerang *''Brooklyn DNA'' (

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, 2012) with Ingebrigt Håker Flaten *'' What/If/They Both Could Fly'' (

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, 2012) with

* ''Ithaca'' (8mm Records, 2012) with

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*''Red Sky'' (PNL, 2013) with Paal Nilssen-Love *''Sonic Elements'' (Clean Feed, 2013) *''Tree Dancing'' (Otoroku, 2019) with

Chris Corsano Chris Corsano is an American improviser based in Chicago, Illinois. Early life Corsano picked up the drums after seeing his half-brother Tony playing. Corsano's first drum set had Animal from the Muppets on the bass, and he largely is self-ta ...

Lol Coxhill George Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012) known professionally as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvisation, free improvising saxophonist. He played soprano saxophone, soprano and sopranino saxophone, sopranino saxopho ...

and

*''Echoes'' (Rune Grammofon, 2023) with

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*''I'm Just Say'n'' (

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/ Le Jazz Non, 2025)

With Trio X

*''

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'' (Cadence Jazz, 1999) *'' The Watermelon Suite'' (CIMP, 1999) *'' On Tour'' (Cadence Jazz, 2001) *'' In Black and White'' (Cadence Jazz, 2002) *'' Journey'' (CIMP, 2003) *'' The Sugar Hill Suite'' (CIMP, 2004) *'' Moods: Playing with the Elements'' (CIMP, 2005) *'' Roulette at Location One'' (Cadence Jazz, 2005) *'' Air: Above and Beyond'' (CIMPol, 2006) *''2006 U.S. Tour'' (CIMPol, 2007) *''Live in Vilnius'' (NoBusiness, 2008) *''Live On Tour 2008'' (CIMPol, 2010) *'' Live On Tour 2010'' (CIMPol, 2012)

With Survival Unit III

*''Don’t Postpone Joy!'' (Rai Trade, 2006) *''Syncronicity]'' (Harmonic Convergence, 2011) *''Game Theory'' (Not Two Records, 2013) *''Barrow Street Blues'' (Holidays Records, 2015) *''Straylight'' (Pink Palace, 2015) *''Straylight (Live at Jazzhouse Copenhagen)'' ( Astral Spirits Records, Astral Spirits, Monofonus Records, 2015)

Compilations

*''A Future Retospective'' (Hat Hut, 1983) – compiles ''Old Eyes'' and ''Oleo'' *''Nation Time: The Complete Recordings (1969-70)'' (Corbett vs Dempsy, 2013) – Compiles ''Nation Times'' and ''Black Magic Man'' with 2 CDs of unreleased live recordings *''The CjR Years'' (Bo'Weevil, 2014) – 4LP Box Set compiles ''Underground Railroad'', ''Nation Time'', ''Trinity'' and ''Pieces of Light''

As sideman

With

* ''

The Chicago Octet/Tentet ''The Chicago Octet/Tentet'' is a live album by saxophonist Peter Brötzmann on which he is joined by two large ensembles known as the Chicago Octet and Tentet. Six tracks were recorded live at The Empty Bottle in Chicago on January 29, 1997, and S ...

'' (Okka Disc, 1998) * '' American Landscapes 1'' (Okka Disc, 2007) * '' American Landscapes 2'' (Okka Disc, 2007) * '' 3 Nights in Oslo'' (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2010) With Roy Campbell, William Parker & Warren Smith *'' Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at the Dynamo'' ( Marge Records, 2009) With the C. T. String Quartet *''Reqiphoenix Nexus'' (Cadence Jazz, 1999

With

*''Live in Concert'' (Cadence Jazz, 1999) *''

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'' (Cadence Jazz, 1999 001 *''Undersound'' (Leo, 2000) *''Undersound II'' (Leo, 2003) * ''Rules Of Engagement, Vol. 2'' (Drimala, 2004) With

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*''Heat Suite'' (Konnex, 2003) With Joe Giardullo * ''Shadow & Light'' (Drimala, 2002) With

Jimmy Giuffre James Peter Giuffre (, ; April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating f ...

and André Jaume *''River Station'' (CELP, 1993) With

Raphe Malik Raphe Malik, born Laurence Mazel (November 1, 1948 in Cambridge, Massachusetts – March 8, 2006 in Guilford, Vermont) was an American jazz trumpeter. Career Malik studied at the University of Massachusetts (1966–70), then moved to Paris, whe ...

*''

Sympathy Sympathy is the perception of, understanding of, and reaction to the Mental distress, distress or need of another life form. According to philosopher David Hume, this sympathetic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint from a personal perspe ...

'' (Boxholder, 2002) with Donald Robinson With

Mat Maneri Mat Maneri (born October 4, 1969) is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri. Career Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Guerino Mazzola, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, G ...

*''Sustain'' (Thirsty Ear, 2002) With the

*''No Borders'' (Non Musica Rex, 2001) With

*'' The Redwood Session'' (CIMP, 1995) With

Jamie Saft Jamie Saft is an American keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was born in New York City and raised a Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jew, and studied at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory, New England Conserva ...

*''Ticonderoga'' (Clean Feed, 2015) With

*'' Freedom & Unity'' (Third World Records, 1967) With The Thing *''She Knows...'' (Crazy Wisdom, 2001)

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Joe McPhee & Clifton Hyde concert video

MP3 Interview

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