''Black Magic Man'' is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer

Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) 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 m ...

recorded on December 12, 1970 and was the first album released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1975.Joe McPhee discography
accessed April 17, 2015 It was included, in a heavily extended form, on the "Nation Time" 4-CD box set issued by Corbett vs. Dempsey.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "''Black Magic Man'' evinces a McPhee coming very much out of the ecstatic free jazz of the time (especially the late John Coltrane and Albert Ayler) but also wrestling with the implications of rock and the use of electronic instruments in jazz".

Track listing

''All compositions by Joe McPhee'' # "Black Magic Man" - 9:30 # "Song for Laureen" - 9:25 # "Hymn of the Dragon Kings" - 17:10

Personnel

- tenor saxophone,

soprano saxophone 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 (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

*Mike Kull - piano,

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

*Tyrone Crabb -

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, electric bass *Bruce Thompson, Ernest Bostic - percussion

References

{{Authority control Joe McPhee live albums 1975 live albums Hathut Records live albums