Linear B (album)

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Linear B
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Studio album by
Joe McPhee Po Music
Released1991
RecordedJanuary 9-12, 1990 at Radio DRS] Zurich, Switzerland.
Genre Jazz
Length67:04
Label HatHut hat ART CD 6057
Producer Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
Joe McPhee chronology
Songs and Dances
(1987)		Linear B
(1991)		 Élan • Impulse
(1991)

Linear B is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1990 and first released on the Swiss HatHut 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.

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

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Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick states "Linear B covers enough of McPhee's stylistic oeuvre, and is fine enough in and of itself, to make it an excellent introduction to his work. Recommended". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

  1. "Love Life" - 9:59
  2. "Make a Circle" - 7:35
  3. "Linear B" - 4:39
  4. "Say That to Say This" - 5:14
  5. "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) - 10:25
  6. "Little Piece 1" - 2:05
  7. "Little Piece 2" - 2:20
  8. "Little Piece 3" - 2:16
  9. "Little Piece 4" - 2:01
  10. "Little Piece 5" - 2:16
  11. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:44
  12. "Imagine a World Without Art" - 5:52
  13. "Voices" - 6:38

Personnel

Flugelhorn Brass musical instrument

The flugelhorn is a brass instrument that is usually pitched in B♭ but occasionally found in C. It resembles a trumpet, and the tube has the same length but a wider, conical bore. A type of valved bugle, the flugelhorn was developed in Germany from a traditional English valveless bugle, with the first version sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modeled.

Pocket trumpet compact size b-flat trumpet, with the same playing range as the regular trumpet

The pocket trumpet is a compact size B♭ trumpet, with the same playing range as the regular trumpet. The length of the tubing, if straightened, would measure the same as that of a standard trumpet. However, the tubing is wound more tightly than that of a standard trumpet to reduce the instrument's size while retaining the characteristic sound. The bell is generally of smaller diameter than a standard trumpet. It is not a standardized instrument to be found in concert band or orchestra brass sections and is generally regarded as a novelty. It is used mostly by trumpet players as a practice instrument that can be packed in a suitcase and taken to places where carrying standard trumpets would be a problem. Though it does not have a reputation as a serious concert band or orchestra instrument, it has occasionally been used by soloists in jazz or other ensembles to add flair and variety.

Soprano saxophone the third smallest member of the saxophone family

The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass saxophone and tubax. Soprano saxophones are the smallest saxophone in common use.

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References

  1. ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. Linear B – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 21, 2015.
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