''The Brass City'' is an 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 ...
with trombonist
Jeb Bishop
Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player.
He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and ...
recorded in 1997 and first released on the
Okka Disk label.
[Joe McPhee discography](_blank)
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Reception
Allmusic
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reviewer Joslyn Layne states "''The Brass City'' finds jazz original Joe McPhee and trombonist Jeb Bishop engaging in an interplay of extended techniques and freed-up structures."
Track listing
''All compositions by Joe McPhee and Jeb Bishop''
# "The Brass City I" - 12:17
# "The Brass City II" - 3:44
# "The Brass City III" - 2:16
# "The Brass City IV" - 7:16
# "The Brass City V" - 4:44
# "The Brass City VI" - 5:47
# "The Brass City VII" - 3:47
# "Outpost" - 4:26
# "Transmute" - 6:25
# "The Rozwell Incident" - 8:02
Personnel
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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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pocket cornet,
valve trombone
A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways. Valves are technically fittings ...
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soprano saxophone
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Jeb Bishop
Jeb Bishop (born 1962) is an American jazz trombone player.
He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and attended Jesse O. Sanderson High School. He has studied music (classical trombone performance) at Northwestern University, engineering and ...
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trombone
The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...
References
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Joe McPhee albums
Jeb Bishop albums
1999 albums
Okka Disk albums