JOE MCPHEE
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Classic Fusion, Eclectic Fusion, 21st Century Modern • United States

For Trio X search under Trio X, for Joe McPhee Survival Unit search under Survival Unit, for A Pride Of Lions search under "A Pride Of Lions". Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional jazz.  Clifford Thornton ’s  Freedom and Unity , recorded in 1967 and released in 1969 on the Third World label, is the first recording on which McPhee appears. In 1968, he began playing the saxophone and since then has investigated read more...