''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 m ...

with trombonist Jeb Bishop recorded in 1997 and first released on the Okka Disk label.Joe McPhee discography
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Reception

Allmusic 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

- pocket cornet, valve trombone,

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 ...

* Jeb Bishop - trombone

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brass City, The Joe McPhee albums Jeb Bishop albums 1999 albums Okka Disk albums