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01. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Something
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02. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude
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03. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - A's New Day
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04. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Violets for Pia
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05. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Guitar
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06. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Baby, Baby, Baby
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07. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Please, Sweet Mistress, Kiss Me Once More Before I Die (for Duke Ellington)
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08. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Percussion Bitter Sweet (for Max Roach)
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09. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 2
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10. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Hat and Beard (for Eric Dolphy and Thelonious Monk)
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11. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 3
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12. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Homeless
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13. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Driva Man 2 (dedicated to Oscar Brown Jr.)
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14. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - A Song for Beggars
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15. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 4
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16. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - The Last of the Late Great Finger-Wigglers
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17. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Long Story Short (for Peter Brötzmann)
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18. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Vieux Vin Blanc
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19. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - The Grand Marquis
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20. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 5
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21. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Invocation
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22. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 6
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23. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - A Meeting in Chicago
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24. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - I'm Just Saying (for the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet at Journey's End)
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25. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - New Chicago Blues
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26. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 7
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27. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Rock 'n' Roll Lover
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28. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 8
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29. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Party Lights
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30. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Tree Dancing
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31. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Echoes of Memory
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32. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Magic Mirror
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33. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - The Loneliest Woman (for Ornette Coleman)
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34. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Interlude 9
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35. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (for John Coltrane and James Baldwin)
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36. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - The Ship with Marigold Sails
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37. Joe Mcphee/Ken Vandermark - Postlude
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ARTIST
MCPHEE/KEN VANDERMARK, JOE
TITLE
Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY
CATALOG #
CVSD 109CD
CVSD 109CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
5/17/2024
Joe McPhee
is one of the great multi-instrumentalists of contemporary improvised music. His instrumental battery has included saxophones, clarinets, valve trombone, pocket trumpet, sound-on-sound tape recorder, and space organ, but another arrow in his quiver is text. McPhee has been writing poems since the 1970s. He occasionally introduces one into performance, as an introduction or afterword to music, and in recent years he's been known to do full-on readings, text only, featuring his inimitable sense of dramatic timing intoned in his rich voice. The poems range from the observational to the political to the surreal. They're composed in rhyme or according to an internal rhythm, sometimes utterly prosaic, sometimes fantastic and flamboyant. A few of them capture the immediacy of improvised music more acutely than any critical writing on the subject, his half-century immersion in the craft of free music having given him a bottomless cup to draw on and his sensitivity to the nuances of language providing a host of palpable metaphors and metonyms, similes and strophes. The poems are marvels on the page, but they really take flight in McPhee's mouth. In 2021, during a flurry of pandemic-inspired poetic activity, he traveled to Chicago expressly to record a program of his poems. For the studio date, he invited saxophonist and clarinetist
Ken Vandermark
to play duets as interludes between groupings of the poems. Then Vandermark, engineer
Alex Inglizian
, and the CvsD team sat breathless in the Experimental Sound Studio control room as McPhee proceeded to perform his poetry nonstop and without repetition for nearly two hours. The result is
Musings of a Bahamian Son
, the first full-length release dedicated to McPhee's writing, with 27 poems interspersed with nine musical interludes and a postlude.
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