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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
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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