Black Magic Man

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Black Magic Man
Black Magic Man.jpg
Live album by
Joe McPhee
Released1975
RecordedDecember 12 and 13, 1970 at Chicago Hall at Vassar College Urban Center for Black Studies
Genre Jazz
Length35:03
Label HatHut hat HUT A
Producer CjR
Joe McPhee chronology
Nation Time
(1971)		Black Magic Man
(1975)		 At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971
(1971)
Alternative Cover
BMM Front.jpg

Black Magic Man is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded on December 12, 1970 (at the same concerts chronicled on his previous album, Nation Time). This was the very first release on the Swedish jazz label HatHut in 1975. [1] It was later included (in heavily extended form) on the "Nation Time" 4-CD boxed set issued by the music label of Chicago arts collective "Corbett vs. Dempsey" in 2013. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "Black Magic Man evinces a McPhee coming very much out of the ecstatic free jazz of the time (especially the late John Coltrane and Albert Ayler) but also wrestling with the implications of rock and the use of electronic instruments in jazz". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Black Magic Man" - 9:30
  2. "Song for Laureen" - 9:25
  3. "Hymn of the Dragon Kings" - 17:10

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 17, 2015
  2. ↑ Nation Time box set accessed April 25th, 2025
  3. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. Black Magic Man – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 17, 2015.
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