Air: Above and Beyond

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Air: Above and Beyond
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Live album by
Trio X
Released2007
RecordedJune 15, 2006 at the Suoni per il Popolo Festival in Montreal, Canada.
Genre Jazz
Label CIMP CIMPol 5001
Joe McPhee chronology
The Open Door
(2006)		Air: Above and Beyond
(2007)		 Voices: 10 Improvisations
(2006)

Air: Above and Beyond is a live album performed by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's Trio X recorded in Canada in 2006 and first released on the CIMP label. [1]

Joe McPhee American musician

Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is most notable for his free jazz work done from the late 1960s to the present day.

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 processing and its spare microphoning technique. Bob Rusch founded CIMP in 1995, with his son Marc Rusch as the recording engineer and his daughter Kara Rusch producing cover art.

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Reception

All About Jazz said "it's memorable set" and "For those who are used to the tenor-bass-drums setup as something frequently given to full-bore blowing, Trio X eloquently captures the tension before the release". [2] [3]

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen except as indicated

  1. "Fried Grapefruit" - 16:30
  2. "Jump Spring" - 10:57
  3. "2128½ Indiana" - 8:15
  4. "Close Up" - 7:31
  5. "Give Us This Day" - 10:22
  6. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:41
  7. "A Valentine in the Fog of War" - 8:27

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Dominic Duval was an American free jazz bassist.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed May 1, 2015
  2. ↑ All About Jazz Review, accessed May 4, 2015
  3. ↑ Allen, C., Joe McPhee: A Legend In Heavy Company, March 16, 2008
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