Tag: Joe McPhee
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Joe McPhee – I’m Just Say’n

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Free jazz is having a spoken word moment. Whether it's the result of contemporary political strife, a hangover from the enforced quietude of the pandemic, age with its scrawled pages of accumulated wisdom or something else afoot or at play, it seems like improvisational jazz and some of its bastions or associates are turning with real vigour and trenchant...

Tracks of the Week 19.08.23

Tracks of the Week
In the fall of 2015 the drummer and composer Mike Reed read a harrowing story in The New York Times about 'The Lonely Death of George Bell', a 72-year-old New Yorker who passed away sequestered inside of his Jackson Heights apartment, his body 'crumpled up on the mottled carpet' after going undiscovered for almost one week. A hoarder, when...