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Topology (album)

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Released
  
1981

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Label
  
hat ART

Topology (1981)
  
Oleo (1981)

Release date
  
1981

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
March 24 and 25, 1981, at Foundation Artists' House in Boswil, Switzerland

Producer
  
Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger

Similar
  
Joe McPhee albums, Jazz albums

Topology is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1981 and first released on the Swiss HatHut label, it was rereleased on CD in 1990.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Age" - 10:47
  2. "Blues for Chicago" - 5:34
  3. "Pithecanthropus Erectus" (Charles Mingus) - 10:33
  4. "Violets for Pia" - 7:43
  5. "Topology I & II" (André Jaume, Joe McPhee) - 28:40

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, pocket trumpet
  • André Jaune - alto saxophone, bass clarinet (tracks 1 & 3-5)
  • Irène Schweizer - piano
  • Raymond Boni - guitar (tracks 1-3 & 5)
  • François Mechali - bass
  • Radu Malfatti - percussion, trombone, electronics (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
  • Pierre Favre - percussion (track 5)
  • Michael Overhage - cello (tracks 1, 2 & 5)
  • Tamia - vocals (track 5)

    • Songs

    1Age10:43
    2Blues For New Chicago5:32
    3Pithecanthropus Erectus10:30

    References

    Topology (album) Wikipedia
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