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

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

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

"Black Magic Man" - 9:30
"Song for Laureen" - 9:25
"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

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