Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist.
Biography Early life
Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...
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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 ...
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Kent Kessler
Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957) is an American jazz double-bassist.
Career
Although born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kessler grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone at age ten. When he was thirteen, he moved with his f ...
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Michael Zerang
Michael Zerang (born November 16, 1958) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer.
Career
Zerang's parents both emigrated to the United States from the Middle East; his father is Iranian and his mother Iraqi.HatHut
Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music. The name of the label comes from the artwork of Klaus Baumgartner. Hathut encompasses the labels hat ART, ...
label in 2004.Joe McPhee discography accessed April 28, 2015
Reception
Allmusic
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reviewer Thom Jurek states "This is a fiery and yet accessible date that showcases many aspects of the two men not only as players, but as composers as well". On
All About Jazz
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Mark Corroto wrote "Quite patient in its approach, the quartet renders an amazing recording of music that announces this trip to the country". In
JazzTimes
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Coverage
After a decade of growt ...
Chris Kelsey noted "There's not a lot of no-holds-barred free blowing, most tracks leave plenty of sonic headroom and the playing is uniformly excellent. Ultimately, however, it's the textural and dynamic contrasts from tune to tune that are the record's greatest strength".Kelsey, C. JazzTimes Review October 2004
Track listing
''All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated''
# "Stone Poem No. 1" - 3:15
# "Something There Is That Doesn't Love" - 6:01
# "Master of a Small House" (Peter Brötzmann) - 7:22
# "Cymbalism" (Michael Zerang) - 5:54
# "Alto Lightning in a Violin Sky" - 5:53
# "From Now Till Doomsday" (Brötzmann) - 6:46
# "Do You Still Love Me/Did I Ever?" (Brötzmann) - 12:07
# "In Anticipation of the Next" - 6:09
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Blessed Assurance
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Crosby was visiting her friend Phoebe Knapp as the Knapp home was having a ...
" (Traditional) - 4:11
# "Pieces of Red, Green and Blue" - 8:01
# "Stone Poem No. 2" - 2:24
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Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist.
Biography Early life
Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...
tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...
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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 ...
trumpet
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Kent Kessler
Kent Kessler (born January 28, 1957) is an American jazz double-bassist.
Career
Although born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kessler grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He began playing trombone at age ten. When he was thirteen, he moved with his f ...
Michael Zerang
Michael Zerang (born November 16, 1958) is an American jazz percussionist and drummer.
Career
Zerang's parents both emigrated to the United States from the Middle East; his father is Iranian and his mother Iraqi.drums,
percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...