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Linear B (album)

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Released
  
1991

Label
  
HatHut hat ART CD 6057

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
67:04

Linear B (1990)
  
Élan • Impulse (1991)

Release date
  
1991

Recorded
  
January 9-12, 1990 at Radio DRS] Zurich, Switzerland.

Producer
  
Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger

Similar
  
Joe McPhee albums, Jazz albums

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Linear B is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1990 and first released on the Swiss HatHut label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick states "Linear B covers enough of McPhee's stylistic oeuvre, and is fine enough in and of itself, to make it an excellent introduction to his work. Recommended".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

  1. "Love Life" - 9:59
  2. "Make a Circle" - 7:35
  3. "Linear B" - 4:39
  4. "Say That to Say This" - 5:14
  5. "Footprints" (Wayne Shorter) - 10:25
  6. "Little Piece 1" - 2:05
  7. "Little Piece 2" - 2:20
  8. "Little Piece 3" - 2:16
  9. "Little Piece 4" - 2:01
  10. "Little Piece 5" - 2:16
  11. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:44
  12. "Imagine a World Without Art" - 5:52
  13. "Voices" - 6:38

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, soprano saxophone, electronics
  • André Jaume - clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 8 & 12)
  • Urs Leimgruber - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 2 & 4)
  • Christy Doran (tracks 7 & 13), Raymond Boni (tracks 1, 5, 9, 12 & 13) - guitar
  • Léon Francioli - bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6 & 11-13)
  • Fritz Hauser - drums (tracks 1-3, 5-10 & 12)

    • References

    Linear B (album) Wikipedia
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