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Black Magic Man

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Released
  
1975

Producer
  
CjR

Release date
  
1975

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
35:03

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Label
  
Hathut Records

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Recorded
  
December 12 and 13, 1970 at Chicago Hall at Vassar College Urban Center for Black Studies

Black Magic Man (1971)
  
At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 (1971)

Similar
  
Joe McPhee albums, Jazz albums

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Black Magic Man is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded on 1970-12-12 and was the first album released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1975. It was included, in a heavily extended form, on the "Nation Time" 4-CD box set issued by Corbett vs. Dempsey.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "Black Magic Man evinces a McPhee coming very much out of the ecstatic free jazz of the time (especially the late John Coltrane and Albert Ayler) but also wrestling with the implications of rock and the use of electronic instruments in jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Black Magic Man" - 9:30
  2. "Song for Laureen" - 9:25
  3. "Hymn of the Dragon Kings" - 17:10

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Mike Kull - piano, electric piano
  • Tyrone Crabb - bass, electric bass
  • Bruce Thompson, Ernest Bostic - percussion
  • Songs

    1Black Magic Man9:30
    2Song for Laureen9:25
    3Hymn of the Dragon Kings17:10

    References

    Black Magic Man Wikipedia