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ARTIST
MCPHEE, JOE
TITLE
Black Is The Color: Live in Poughkeepsie and New Windsor, 1969-70
FORMAT
2CD
LABEL
CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY
CATALOG #
CVSD 069CD
CVSD 069CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
8/14/2020
Never-before-issued music from three very different settings in upstate New York, all recorded in the period running up to Poughkeepsie multi-instrumentalist
Joe McPhee
's
Nation Time
(CVSD 054CD). From a year before that landmark LP, in the same hall at Vassar College, McPhee led a band with soulful vibraphonist
Ernie Bostic
and voluble rhythm section of
Tyrone Crabb
and
Bruce Thompson
, both of
Nation Time
fame, performing a
John Coltrane
-oriented set that included versions of
Mongo Santamaria
's "Afro Blue" and Coltrane's "Naima," as well as McPhee-fave "God Bless The Child." Deeply emotional and fiery playing with this unusual instrumentation -- rare to find McPhee playing with a harmonically based instrument like vibes. McPhee had organized a larger group also meant to feature Bostic and a French horn for a concert at a monastery in nearby New Windsor, but the band was pared down to a quartet with saxophonist
Reggie Marks
, playing a powerful combination of originals and the
Patty Waters
-associated traditional tune "Black Is The Color." (The concert also featured a cameo by
David Nelson
of the
Last Poets
, but technical issues in the recording scuttled that and several other tracks.) Finally, three cuts document a more rough-and-tumble gig taped outdoors in the park at Poughkeepsie's Lincoln Centre -- the only surviving recordings of this funky, bluesy, lowdown, explosive configuration, they feature vocals by one
Octavius Graham
, great drumming by
Chico Hawkins
, and Tyrone Crabb on electric bass. This two-CD set has been lovingly transferred from the original tapes out of from McPhee's personal archives, and is augmented by newly discovered photographs of the concerts. A spectacular deep dive into the pure magic of Mr. McPhee.
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