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Visitation (Joe McPhee album)

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Released
  
1985

Label
  
Sackville 3036

Artists
  
Joe McPhee, Bill Smith

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
43:31

Producer
  
Bill Smith

Release date
  
1985

Recorded
  
November 6, 1983 at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto

Visitation (1983)
  
Songs and Dances (1987)

Similar
  
Joe McPhee albums, Jazz albums

Visitation is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1983 and first released on the Canadian Sackville label, it was rereleased on CD in 2003.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow states "The interplay between these masterful improvisers on group originals and Albert Ayler's classic "Ghosts" is consistently impressive and worthy of a close investigation by the more open-eared segment of the jazz audience".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

  1. "Exuma" - 4:23
  2. "Eleuthera" - 10:21
  3. "Home at Last" (Bill Smith) - 7:14
  4. "Ghosts" (Albert Ayler) - 7:22
  5. "If I Don't Fall" (David Prentice) - 5:47
  6. "A-Configuration" (Smith) - 8:24

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Bill Smith - soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, alto saxophone
  • David Prentice - violin
  • David Lee - bass
  • Richard Barnard - drums

    • References

    Visitation (Joe McPhee album) Wikipedia
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