| Common Threads | ||||
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| Live album by Joe McPhee Quintet | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | October 19, 1995 at the Earshot Jazz Festival at The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, Washington. | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 59:18 | |||
| Label | Deep Listening DL4 | |||
| Producer | Joe McPhee | |||
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Common Threads (subtitled Live at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1995 and first released on the Deep Listening label. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "the quintet creates a spacious yet wonderfully murky chamber music, utilizing timbre as its force for forward momentum. The three-string instruments are given free rein to cover or open spaces inside this mode and create intervals of their own for McPhee and S. Dempster. They create textures in space by employing timbral chromatics of timbre and tonal extension and contraction to achieve their aims". [2]
All compositions by Joe McPhee
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.
Nation Time is a live album by saxophonist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in late 1970 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2000.
Trinity is an album by American mult-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2001.
Underground Railroad is a live album by saxophonist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1969 at the Holy Cross Monastery and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2001 with a bonus concert from the same venue.
Pieces of Light is an album by mult-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with John Snyder on synthesizer recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005.
Élan • Impulse is a live duet album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1991 and released on the French In Situ label.
Legend Street One is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1996 and first released on the CIMP label.
Legend Street Two is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1996 and first released on the CIMP label.
Inside Out is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with violinist David Prentice recorded in 1996 and first released on the CIMP label.
McPhee/Parker/Lazro is a live album by saxophonists Joe McPhee, Evan Parker and Daunik Lazro recorded in France in 1995 and first released on the Vand'Oeuvre label.
Specific Gravity is a live album by multi-instrumentalists Joe McPhee and Joe Giardullo recorded in 1997 and first released on the Boxholder label.
Grand Marquis is an album by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and drummer Johnny McLellan recorded in 1999 and first released on the Boxholder label.
In the Spirit is an album of spirituals performed by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's Bluette recorded in 1999 and first released on the CIMP label.
The Dream Book is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and bassist Dominic Duval recorded at the Knitting Factory in 1999 and released on the Cadence Jazz label.
Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom is an album by percussionist Hamid Drake and multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1999 and first released on the Okka Disk label.
No Greater Love is a live album of performed by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee recorded in 1999 and first released on the CIMP label. The album was recorded at the same sessions that produced In the Spirit.
Tales Out of Time is an album by Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang recorded in 2002 and released on the Swiss HatHut label in 2004.
What/If/They Both Could Fly is a live album by Evan Parker and Joe McPhee recorded Norway in 2012 and released on the Norwegian Rune Grammofon label.
In Finland is a live album by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, pianist Matthew Shipp and bassist Dominic Duval recorded in 2004 and released on the Cadence Jazz label.
Ensemble 1995 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton with an ensemble, recorded at the Knitting Factory in 1995 and released on his own Braxton House label.