At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971

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At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971
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Live album by
Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II
Released1996
RecordedOctober 30, 1971 at WBAI's Free Music Store in NYC
Genre Jazz
Length78:52
Label HatHut hat ART CD 6197
Producer Pia and Werner X. Uehlinger
Joe McPhee chronology
Black Magic Man
(1971)		At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971
(1996)		 Trinity
(1971)
Alternative Cover
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At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 (also released as N.Y.N.Y. 1971) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1971 and first released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1996. [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.

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. Huthut encompasses the labels hat ART, hatOLOGY, and hat NOIR.

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Reception

Professional ratings
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The six lengthy pieces (which are sandwiched by somewhat stilted announcing) are full of fire but also have their quiet and lyrical moments. A strong all-around performance that should not have taken 25 years to release". [2] On All About Jazz, Nic Jones noted "this is a great opportunity to check in with McPhee on street level and follow his musical journey chronologically from there. Live a little and savour the challenge". [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

  1. Announcement 1 - 0:33
  2. "Black Magic Man" - 6:25
  3. Announcement 2 - 0:35
  4. "Nation Time" - 14:12
  5. "Song for Lauren" - 13:17
  6. Announcement 3 - 0:33
  7. "Message from Denmark" - 13:39
  8. "The Looking Glass 1" - 16:01
  9. "Harriet" - 13:35

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".

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Clifford Edward Thornton III was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s.

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References

  1. ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 28, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 28, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Jones, N., All About Jazz Review, June 28, 2006
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