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01. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Pithecanthropus Erectus
02. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Self-Portrait In Three Colors
03. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Evidence
04. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Rue St. Jaume
05. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Blue Monk
06. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Chelsea Bridge
07. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Come Sunday
08. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Nuclear
09. JOE MCPHEE & ANDRE JAUME - Lonely Woman
ARTIST
TITLE
Nuclear Family
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CVSD 031CD CVSD 031CD
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RELEASE DATE
8/11/2017

2016 release. Multi-instrumental master Joe McPhee and his longtime colleague, French saxophonist and clarinetist André Jaume, joined forces for this studio recording in 1979 that was prepared but never released. It is primarily structured around pairs of tunes by Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington (or Billy Strayhorn), adding Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" for good measure. The results are stunningly intimate and show the twosome's capacity for creative interplay at a fairly early stage in its unfolding. Mingus's "Pithecanthropus Erectus", which was performed by a larger group on Topology (1981), gets pared down to its essential walking-bass-ness, while Monk's "Evidence" is taken apart, and solo spots by both men are as riveting as one would expect. Part of Corbett vs. Dempsey's ongoing historical effort to unearth and reissue McPhee's important discography, this previously unknown recording will delight existing fans and make new ones.