Visitation (Joe McPhee album)

Visitation
Studio album by Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble
Released	1985
Recorded	November 6, 1983, at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:31
Label	Sackville 3036
Producer	Bill Smith
Joe McPhee chronology
Oleo (1981) Visitation (1985) Songs and Dances (1987)
Alternative cover

Visitation is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1983 and first released on the Canadian Sackville label, it was rereleased on CD in 2003. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow states "The interplay between these masterful improvisers on group originals and Albert Ayler's classic "Ghosts" is consistently impressive and worthy of a close investigation by the more open-eared segment of the jazz audience". ^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

1. "Exuma" - 4:23
2. "Eleuthera" - 10:21
3. "Home at Last" (Bill Smith) - 7:14
4. "Ghosts" (Albert Ayler) - 7:22
5. "If I Don't Fall" (David Prentice) - 5:47
6. "A-Configuration" (Smith) - 8:24

Personnel

• Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn
• Bill Smith - soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, alto saxophone
• David Prentice - violin
• David Lee - bass
• Richard Barnard - drums

References

1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 20, 2015
2. Yanow, Scott. Visitation – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 21, 2015.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 985. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.