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Common Threads (album)

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Released
  
1996

Label
  
Deep Listening DL4

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
59:18

Producer
  
Joe McPhee

Release date
  
1996

Recorded
  
October 19, 1995 at the Earshot Jazz Festival at The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, Washington.

Common Threads (1995)
  
A Meeting in Chicago (1996)

Similar
  
Trinity, In the Spirit, Nation Time, Underground Railroad, On Tour

Common Threads (subtitled Live at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1995 and first released on the Deep Listening label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "the quintet creates a spacious yet wonderfully murky chamber music, utilizing timbre as its force for forward momentum. The three-string instruments are given free rein to cover or open spaces inside this mode and create intervals of their own for McPhee and S. Dempster. They create textures in space by employing timbral chromatics of timbre and tonal extension and contraction to achieve their aims".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry)" - 47:30
  2. "Michael's Cipher" - 4:04
  3. "Red Enchantment (For Joe McPhee, Sr.)" - 7:39

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Stuart Dempster - trombone, didjeridu, little instruments
  • Eyvind Kang - violin
  • Loren Dempster - cello
  • Michael Bisio - bass
  • References

    Common Threads (album) Wikipedia