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Joe McPhee, The Jazzmen "Nineteen Sixty-Six" [CD]

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Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey

フロリダはマイアミの伝説的サックス奏者Joe McPheeの最初期音源が登場!!名作[Nation Time]及び、それと近い時期に出版されていたJoe McPheeの初期音源全てに参加していたベーシストのTyrone Crabb。氏が60年代半ばに率いていたバンド"The Jazzmen"の未発表録音がCorbett vs. Dempseyより初音源化。Joe McPheeが初めてトランペットを演奏した貴重な2テイクが収録されており、特に痛烈な叫びとダウナーなテンポで演奏されるバンドの楽曲からMiles Davisの[Milestones]へと変化する、34分一曲編成の[Killed In Vietnam / Milestones]の演奏内容は圧巻。





Until now, the earliest recordings anyone has heard by Joe McPhee come from the period around his 1968 debut album, Underground Railroad. McPhee had just started playing tenor saxophone at that point. A couple of years earlier, the bassist featured on all of McPhee's early recordings, Tyrone Crabb, led a band of his own, the Jazzmen, in which McPhee was featured on his first instrument: trumpet. Indeed, McPhee was a trumpet legacy – his father was a trumpeter. In the mid-'60s, Joe was a serious young player with deep knowledge and an expansive ear. Performing around Poughkeepsie and across the Hudson Valley, the Jazzmen were one of the very first ensembles recorded by Craig Johnson, who would go on to form the CjR label expressly to release McPhee's music. The fledgling audio engineer was clearly learning the ropes when he documented this incredible 1966 performance, but despite a few excusable acoustic blemishes, it's a beautiful window into McPhee's trumpet playing, suggesting that, had he stuck to that instrument alone, he might well have been considered a major figure on the horn (of course, he is such a figure on the pocket trumpet); the opening track, a version of "One Mint Julep" as arranged by Freddie Hubbard (on his Blue Note record Open Sesame) shows McPhee's lithe stylings to good effect. McPhee's musical cosmology was much bigger than a single axe, however, as is evident on the sprawling second track, which, over the course of half-an-hour proceeds from an excoriating yowl to a version of Miles Davis's "Milestones" taken at a sweltering tempo. A fiery portent of the free jazz to follow and a marker of McPhee's foundations in hard bop and soul jazz, Nineteen Sixty-Six features the entire reel-to-reel tape long thought lost, simply labeled: "Joe McPhee, 1966, trumpet."