Complete Discography of Joe McPhee

Trio X - LIVE IN VILNIUS (2009)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen

A fantastic musical performance took place . Rich, colorful, intense, played almost on a telepathic level, this music is a true masterpiece of this amazing group.
Limited Edition of 500 records double LP

Track list
Side A:
1. (a) Visions of war (Dominic Duval);
(b) Valentines In A Fog Of War (inspired by „My Funny Valentine“ (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Musical Babes in Arms) and „War“ (EdwinStar).
2. Going Home (Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" - from the 1st movement ).
Side B:
3. (a) Dance of our Fathers;
(b) Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman);
(c) Law Years (Ornette Coleman), arranged by Dominic Duval.
Side C:
4. (a) Smiles For Samuel (Jay Rosen);
(b) The Basic Principles;
(c) Evidence (Thelonious Sphere Monk);
(d) God bless the child (Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog).
Side D:
5. (a) For Don Cherry ( Joe Mcphee);
(b) Memories Of The Dream Book (Joe McPhee and Dominic Duval);
(c) In Our Sweet Way...
6. (a) My Soul Cries Out (Joe McPhee);
(b) Blue Monk (Thelonious Sphere Monk).

Record label & other notes
NoBusiness Records NBLP2-3, 2009
recorded on 27th March 2006 at Vilniaus Congress Hall, Lithuania

Angels, Devils & Haints (2009)

Personnel
Joe McPhee
with bassists
Michael Bisio
Dominic Duval
Paul Rogers
Claude Tchamitian

Track list
Forty years after Joe McPhee’s 1st album, Underground Railroad (CjR-1), comes Angels, Devils & Haints (CjR-7). Celebrate the change of the century and the life and music of Albert Ayler in a special program recorded live on tour in France, in 2000.
The two volumes include the complete concert from the Europa Jazz Festival (Le Mans), as well as a bonus CD with music from Panonica (Nantes).

Record label & other notes
CjR-7
Cadence Building, Redwood, NY 13679-3104
Tel: 315-287-2852 s Fax: 315-287-2860

Voices: Ten Improvisations (2008)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - alto saxophone, pocket trumpet
John Heward - drums, kalimba, percussion

Track list
1. Improvisation 1
2. Improvisation 2
3. Improvisation 3
4. Improvisation 4
5. Improvisation 5
6. Improvisation 6
7. Improvisation 7
8. Improvisation 8
9. Improvisation 9
10. Improvisation 10

Record label & other notes
Mode Records, Catalog ID: Avant 05
Released March 18, 2008

Tomorrow Came Today (2008)

Personnel
Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-love

Track list
1. Tomorrow Came Today (7:07)
2. Go (4:24)
3. Ibsen’s Ghost (4:28)
4. Build and Break (6:15)
5. Acts of Time (5:22)
6. Sun and Steel (7:17)
7. Body Sound (4:33)
8. Crossing Messages (5:35)

Record label & other notes
Released September 2008

2006 US Tour - Trio X 7 CD Box Set (2008)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee (Alto and Tenor Saxophones);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Record label & other notes
2006 Tour CIMPOL
Released in 2008

Trio X: Roulette at Location One (2007)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. Funny Valentines of War
2. Improvs and Melodies of Themes
3. David Danced: variations on Ellington
4. Sunflower Musings
5. Going Home

Record label & other notes
Cadence Jazz Records 1200, 2006

Two Bands And A Legend (2007)

Personnel
Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee
Christian Engfelt - bass, vocals;
Cato Thomassen - guitar, vocals;
Jon Magne Riise - drums;
Bĺrd Enerstad - guitar, organ, theremin, vocals;
Mats Gustafsson - baritone sax, tenor sax, electronics;
Ingebrigt Hĺker Flaten - double bass, electronics;
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums;
Joe McPhee - tenor sax, pocket trumpet, vocals.

Track list
1. Who The Fuck
2. The Witch
3. Too Much Fun
4. Tekla Loo
5. Louie Louie
6. You Ain’t Gonna Know Me ’Cos You Think You Know Me
7. The Nut
8. Baby Talk
9. I Can’t Find My Mind

Record label & other notes
Smalltown Superjazz, Norway 2007

Rules of Engagement, Vol. 2 (2007)

Personnel
Dominic Duval (bass);
Joe McPhee (trumpet, soprano sax).

Track list
1. Nexus (4:48)
2. Sunday Improvisations (16:30)
3. Sunday’s Coda (3:52)
4. Birmingham Sunday (10:02)
5. Monologue (0:50)
6. Sunday Improvisations (27:32)
7. Amazing Grace (3:16)
8. While My Lady Sleeps (7:58)
9. Coming Forth (4:03)
10. Solo Sax (4:07)
11. Solo Bass (4:29)

Record label & other notes
Drimala, Release date:2007-02-13

The Open Door (2007)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (alto sax);
Dominic Duval (bass).

Track list
1. Escape from the Shadows
2. Freedom to Choose
3. More Violets
4. The Open Door
5. Rainbow Crossing
6. A Poetic Resonance
7. Variations on God Bless the Child

Record label & other notes
CIMPoL 5003, 2007
Recorded June 14, 2006 at Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada by Marc D. Rusch.

Intimate Conversations (2007)

Personnel
Joe McPhee-tenor saxophone;
Mikolaj Trzaska-bass clarinet, alto & C-melody saxes;
Jay Rosen-drums.

Track list
1. Was It Something I Said? (3:43)
2. Maybe Not (4:41)
3. I Would If I Could (3:53)
4. Did God Forget Darfur/What God? (8:43)
5. An Intimate Converasation #1 (5:45)
6. An Intimate Converasation #2 (4:49)
7. North Star (For Max Roach) (3:14)
8. An Intimate Converasation #3 (11:02)
9. Dom’s Matrix (5:10)
10. Snowflakes On Flowers (11:00)
11. And Then (5:01)
12. King To King’s Bishop (5:09)

Record label & other notes
Not Two Records, MW 790-2, Poland 2007
Recorded at Alchemia, Kraków November 1, 2006 by Michaů Rosicki.

AIR: Above and Beyond (2007)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee - tenor sax;
Dominic Duval - bass;
Jay Rosen - drums.

Track list
1. Fried Grapefruit (For Henry Threadgill) (16:30)
2. Jump Spring (For William Parker) (10:57)
3. 21281/2 Indiana (For Fred Anderson) (8:15)
4. Close Up (7:31)
5. Give Us This Day (For Duke Ellington) (10:22)
6. Here’s that Rainy Day (5:41)
7. A Valentine in the Fog of War (8:27)

Record label & other notes
CIMPOL 5001, 2007
Recorded June 15, 2006 in Montreal, Canada by Marc D. Rusch.

At Molde 2007 (2007)

Personnel
Chicago Tentet
Joe McPhee;
Peter Brotzmann;
Kent Kessler;
Michael Zerang;
Johannes Bauer;
Per Ake Holmlander;
Fred Lonberg-Holm;
Mats Gustafsson;
Ken Vandermark;
Paal Nilssen-Love.

Track list
1. Ten By Ten (39:06)
2. Little By Little (11:52)
3. Step By Step (22:57)

Record label & other notes
OKKA 072CD, 2007
Recorded in concert at Molde Jazzfestival / Norway / July 20th 2007 by Thomas Hukkelberg at Desibel / No / Mixed and Mastered September 2007 by Paal Nilssen-Love + Thomas Hukkelberg

The Train And The River: A Musical Odyssey (2007)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee-soprano sax, pocket trumpet;
Dominic Duval-bass;
Jay Rosen-drums.

Track list
DVD documentary of the great jazz trio of Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen, recorded in March of 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Record label & other notes
CIMPVIEW 10001, 2007
Format: DVD (available in NTSC format, region 0 / PAL format, region not specified)
Recorded March 2006 in Vilnius, Lithuania by Nepriklausomi Garso Rezisieriai.

Two Bands and A Legend: I See You Baby (2007)

Personnel
Two Bands and A Legend
Cato Salsa Experience
The Thing with Joe McPhee

Track list
1. I See you Baby Shakin’ That Ass
2. Nation Time
3. Our Prayer

Record label & other notes
Cine Nomad, stsj130, Norway 2007

Red Morocco (2007)

Personnel
Joe Giardullo Open Ensemble:
Joe Giardullo;
Gordon Allen;
Rosie Hertlein;
Daniel Levin;
Rich Rosenthal;
David Arner;
Lori Freedman;
Joe Mcphee;
Michael Snow;
David Prentice;
Martha Colby;
Steve Lantner;
Dom Minasi;
Brian Melick.

Track list
1. OPB (6:21)
2. OPG (7:42)
3. 2T(m) (4:08)
4. Memory Root (7:32)
5. OPD (3:47)
6. NFRTT-1 (4:17)
7. Q-2G(e) (8:38)
8. Calabar (3:03)
9. Hikori (3:01)
10. Red Morocco (10:45)

Record label & other notes
RogueArt, Catalog ID: 12, France 2007
Recorded April 5, 2005 by Tom Mark at Make Believe Ballroom Studio, Shokan, NY and February 5, 2006 by Michael Snow at Wakamba, Marbletown, NY.

American Landscapes 2 (2007)

Personnel
Peter Brötzmann - clarinet, taragato, alto tenor-sax;
Mats Gustafsson - baritone, slide-sax;
Ken Vandermark - clarinet, baritone, tenor-sax;
Joe McPhee - trumpet, alto-sax;
Hannes Bauer - trombone;
Per-Ake Holmlander - tuba;
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello;
William Parker - bass;
Kent Kessler - bass;
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums;
Michael Zerang - drums.

Track list
1. American Landscapes 2 (52:48)

Record label & other notes
OKKA 068CD, 2007
Recorded live at Le Weekend 2006 in the tollbooth stirling recording and mastering.

American Landscapes 1 (2007)

Track list
1. American Landscape 1 (43:39)

Record label & other notes
OKKA 067CD, 2007
Recorded live at Le Weekend 2006 in the tollbooth stirling recording and mastering.

Guts (2007)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - trumpet, alto, tenor sax;
Peter Brötzmann - alto, tenor sax, clarinet, tarogato;
Kent Kessler - double bass;
Michael Zerang - drums.

Track list
1. Guts (17:41)
2. Rising Spirits (41:16)

Record label & other notes
Okka 12062, 2007
Recorded by Malachi Ritscher at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, August 3, 2005.

Soprano (2007)

Personnel
Joe McPhee: soprano saxophone.

Track list
A1 Response Ability Part I (18:59)
A2 Response Ability Part II (4:06)
B1 A Night On Rose Mountain (11:21)
B2 In Order To Hear (8:08)

Record label & other notes
Roaratorio, ROAR 12, Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, 553, 2007
Recorded live in St. George’s Church at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 1998

Now Is (2007)

Personnel
Joe Giardullo (soprano saxophone);
Joe McPhee (soprano saxophone, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn);
Mike Bisio (bass);
Tani Tabbal (drums, djembe).

Track list
1. Now Is
2. Spin
3. Conference
4. Scint
5. O.A.O.L.
6. Spring Theory
7. Close

Record label & other notes
Label: Drimala Records Catalog No: TOCO 803332
Release Date: 2007-03-20
Recording information: The Make Believe Ballroom, Shokan, New York (01/10/2003).

In Finland (2006)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Matthew Shipp (Piano);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. Never Before
2. Never Again
3. In Finland

Record label & other notes
Cadence Jazz Records 1186, 2006
Live performance

Requiphoenix Nexus (2006)

Personnel
Dominic Duval String Quartet with Joe McPhee

Dominic Duval (Bass);
Jason Kao Hwang (Violin);
Ron Lawrence (Viola);
Tomas Ulrich (Cello);
Joe McPhee (Soprano Sax)

Track list
1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Record label & other notes
Cadence Jazz Records 1197, 2006

Port of Saints (2006)

Personnel
Michael Bisio - bass;
Raymond Boni - electric guitar;
Dominic Duva - bass;
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone.

Track list
1. Port of Saints (51:00)
2. The Snake, The Fish (and Things) (13:52)

Record label & other notes
CJR-6, Released: 2006
Recorded at Chapelle Sainte Philomène, Puget-Ville, France on May 8, 2000 by Jean-Marc Foussat

Don’t Postpone Joy! (2006)

Personnel
Joe McPhee Survival Unit III
Joe McPhee-tenor sax, pocket trumpet;
Fred Lonberg-Holm-cello;
Michael Zerang-percussion.

Track list
1. Variations on Harriet (McPhee) 27:26
2. Feather Exchange (Lonberg-Holm) 15:08
3. Variations on Nation Time (McPhee) 16:23
4. Variations on Remembrance (McPhee) 19:28

Record label & other notes
RAI Trade, Italy, 2006
Catalog ID: 6
Recorded live at Tradizione In Movimento, Sala Vanni, Firenze, November 4th, 2005.

A Parallax View (2006)

Personnel
Joe McPhee
Paul Hession

Track list
1 Tipping Point
2 Blue Coat, Blue Collar
3 From Eremite to Termite
4 Evocation
5 Love is (like walking naked on a razor blade)
6 What Can We Do?

Record label & other notes
Recorded on tour in 2003, UK
Eremite Records 2006

Sounds like a Sandwich (2005)

Personnel
Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee
Christian Engfelt - bass, vocals;
Cato Thomassen - guitar, vocals;
Jon Magne Riise - drums;
Bĺrd Enerstad - guitar, organ, theremin, vocals;
Mats Gustafsson - baritone sax;
Ingebrigt Hĺker Flaten - double bass;
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums;
Joe McPhee - tenor sax.

Track list
1. Sounds Like A Sandwich
2. Whole Lotta Love
3. Art Star
4. Our Prayer
5. Hardcore Mama

Record label & other notes
Smalltown Superjazz, Norway 2005

Turtle Crossing (2005)

Personnel
Jumala Quintet
Paul Flaherty - Saxes,
Joe McPhee - Sax (Soprano, Tenor, Trumpet (Pocket)),
Laurence Cook (Percussion, Drums),
Steve Swell (Trombone),
John Voigt (Double Bass)

Track list
1. The Gift of Nowhere (11:37)
2. Turtle Crossing (19:23)
3. Unspoken Oath (8:47)
4. Weighing of the Heart (11:27)
5. Borrowed Light (9:02)
6. All Is Always Now (12:47)

Record label & other notes
Clean Feed
Release 2005

Remembrance (2005)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - Sax (Soprano), Pocket Trumpet
Michael Bisio - Bass
Raymond Boni - Guitar
Paul R. Harding

Track list
1. Remembrance (Opening) 22:57
2. This Is Where I Live 6:29
3. In the End There Is Peace 8:15
4. Remembrance (Closing) 16:17

Record label & other notes
CJR 2005 CD

The Sugar Hill Suite (2004)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee (Tenor Saxophone);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. For Agusta Savage
2. Triple Play (For Jillian, Grace & Dominic)
3. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
4. Drop Me Off in Harlem
5. The Sugar Hill Suite (For Samuel Rosen)
6. Little Sunflower
7. Monk’s Waltz
8. Goin’ Home

Record label & other notes
CIMP 320, October 19, 2004.

Moods: Playing with the Elements (2004)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee (Alto and Tenor Saxophones);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. Sienna Sun
2. Wegatchie Run
3. Burning Wood
4. Dedicated to You, Joe
5. Stella by Starlight
6. In Evidence
7. Lonely Woman
8. Short Eyes
9. Legacy (Celebrating Bill Dixon’s October Revolution of 1964)
10. Voices
11. A Valentine in the Fog of War

Record label & other notes
CIMP 328, Recorded Oct. 20 & 21, 2004.

Manhattan Tango (2004)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, pocket trumpet & voice;
Jerome Bourdellon, bass, C, and piccolo flute.

Track list
1. Business Hour (4:49)
2. Pears for Swine (6:40)
3. White Street, 17A (5:24)
4. A.K.A.L.H. (9:25)
5. In the Noiseless Loft (4:14)
6. Come Back Ella (3:26)
7. Mystery "J" (8:56)
8. Manhattan Tango (10:52)

Record label & other notes
Usine, France 2004

Sympathy (2004)

Personnel
Raphe Malik;
Joe McPhee;
Donald Robinson.

Track list
1. Testament (9:14)
2. Resolving a Quote (7:43)
3. Velocity (4:53)
4. Space March (7:33)
5. Hypersonic (10:03)
6. Motivic (8:19)
7. (6:41)
8. Call and Response (8:20)
9. Escape Route (12:35)

Record label & other notes
Boxholder Records 2004
Recorded Oct 3, 2002

Tales Out Of Time (2004)

Personnel
Peter Brotzmann - alto,tenor saxophone;
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, pocket cornet and trumpet;
Kent Kessler - double bass;
Michael Zerang - drums, percussion.

Track list
1. Stone Poem No. 1
2. Something There Is That Doesn’t Love
3. Master Of A Small House
4. Cymbalism
5. Alto Lightning In A Violin House
6. From Now Till Doomsday
7. Did You Still Love Me/Did I Ever?
8. In Anticipation of the Next
9. Blessed Assurance
10. Pieces Of Red, Green And Blue
11. Stone Poem No. 2.

Record label & other notes
Hatology 589, Switzerland, 2004
Recorded June 19, 2002 at AirWave Studios, Chicago by John McCorthney.

Terronès - Suite Andalouse (2004)

Personnel
Raymond Boni Fortuna 21 Octet

Laure Donnat - voix;
Joe McPhee - saxophone soprano, pocket trumpet;
Anna Startseva - violin;
Emmanuel Cremer - cello;
Bastien Boni - bass;
Raymond Boni - guitar;
Remi Charmasson - guitar;
Jean-Marc Foussat - voice.

Record label & other notes
Blue Marge #1007
Released 2004

Journey (2003)

Personnel
Trio X
Joe McPhee (Alto and Tenor Saxophones);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. Episode 1. That Was/This Is
2. Episode 2. Journey
3. Episode 3. Jaywalkin’
4. Episode 4. Blue Moves
5. Episode 5. Autograph
6. Episode 6. Everything In Nothing Flat
7. Episode 7. For Charles Moffett
8. Episode 8. Rossie 2 Step
9. Episode 9. Albert’s Alto
10. Episode 10. Amazing Grace

Record label & other notes
CIMP 283, Recorded February 6 & 7, 2003.

Unquenchable Fire (2003)

Personnel
Deep Listening Band;
Joe McPhee Quartet

Track list
1. Intro (04:57)
2. 1St Movement (26:16)
3. 2Nd Movement (09:51)
4. 3Rd Movement (11:30)
5. 4Th Movement (15:10)

Record label & other notes
Deep Listening; DL 19-2003
Release date: 2004-11-09

Undersound II (2003)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor);
Dominic Duval - Bass;
John Heward - Percussion, Drums.

Track list
1. Undersound 11 (26:08)
2. Undersound 12 (15:48)
3. Undersound 13 (5:04)
4. Undersound 14 (Going Home) (11:02)

Record label & other notes
Leo Records CD LR295, 2003
recorded on December 6, 2000, live at Casa del Popolo in Montréal.

Heat Suite (2003)

Personnel
Joe Fonda - bass, flute, voice & percussion;
Joe McPhee - tenor and soprano saxophones, pocket trumpet;
Cliff White - alto, tenor & baritone saxophones;
Ben Karetnick - drums & percussion.

Track list
1. Part 1 (9:59)
2. Part 2 (16:25)
3. Part 3 (15:09)
4. Part 4 (9:44)

Record label & other notes
Recorded August 16th, 2002 @ The Unitarian Meeting House Amherst, MA.
Released 2003 by Konnex Records [KCD 5122]

Signs (2003)

Personnel
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet:
Joe McPhee - trumpet;
Jeb Bishop - trombone;
Ken Vandermark - tenor, baritone sax, b-flat-clarinet;
Mats Gustafsson - tenor, baritone sax;
Mars Williams - alto, tenor, sopranino sax;
Peter Brötzmann - alto, tenor sax, a-clarinet, tarogato;
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello;
Kent Kessler - bass;
Michael Zerang - drums;
Hamid Drake - drums.

Record label & other notes
OKKA 048, 2003
Recorded at Airwave Studios / Chicago 17th and 18th of June 2002 by John McCortney

Images (2003)

Record label & other notes
OKKA 047, 2003
Recorded at Airwave Studios / Chicago 17th and 18th of June 2002 by John McCortney

Everything Happens For A Reason (2003)

Personnel
Joe McPhee: alto and soprano saxophones, cornet.

Track list
1. Mythos
2. Vieux Carré
3. Come Sunday
4. Everything Happens for a Reason
5. J2
6. Voices.

Record label & other notes
Roaratorio, Roar 9, Limited Edition LP, 2003
Recorded live in Austria in November of 2003

Broken English (2002)

Personnel
Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet (including Joe McPhee)

Track list
1. Stonewater (42:48)
2. Broken English [for Franz Kline] (20:09)

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk OD12O43, 2002
Release format CD
Recorded at Airwave Studios, Chicago, 3rd and 4th of July 2000, by John

Short Visit to Nowhere (2002)

Personnel
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (including Joe McPhee)

Peter Brötzmann - tenor saxophone, tarogato, a clarinet;
Joe McPhee - trumpet, valve trombone;
Jeb Bishop - trombone;
Ken Vandermark - tenor saxophone, clarinet;
Mats Gustafsson - tenor & baritone saxophones;
Mars Williams- alto & tenor saxophones;
Fred Lonberg-Holm- cello;
Kent Kessler- bass;
Michael Zerang- drums;
Hamid Drake- drums;
Roy Campbell- trumpet, flugelhorn;
William Parker- bass, log-drum.

Track list
1. Hold That Thought (17:29)
2. Ellington (13:09)
3. Short Visit to Nowhere (25:05)
4. Lightbox (15:19)

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk OD12O44
Recorded at Airwave Studios, Chicago, 3rd and 4th of July 2000, by John McCortney

She Knows (2002)

Personnel
Mats Gustafsson – Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone;
Ingebrigt Haker Flaten – Bass;
Paal Nilssen-Love – Drums;
Joe McPhee – Pocket Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone.

Track list
1. To Bring You My Love;
2. The Thing;
3. Baby Talk;
4. Kathelin Gray;
5. Going Home;
6. For Real;
7. Old Eyes

Record label & other notes
Crazy Wisdom, 2002

Shadow & Light (2002)

Personnel
Joe Giardullo quartet:
Joe Giardullo;
Joe McPhee;
Michael Bisio;
Tani Tabbal.

Track list
1. One Moment and the Next;
2. Cries, Whispers & Cries;
3. City on the Edge of Forever;
4. Twilight at Noon;
5. In the End There Is Peace;
6. Well of Souls;
7. Question of Time;
8. Shadow and Light.

Record label & other notes
Drimala CD #DR 02~347~01
(studio, West Shokan, NY, on that very day... 9/11/2001)

Cries & Whispers (2002)

Personnel
Dominic Duval (bass);
Joe McPhee (tenor sax, flugelhorn);
Mark Whitecage (alto clarinet, alto sax);
Jason Hwang (violin);
Tomas Ulrich (violin cello)

Track list
1. Cries & Whispers I (13:40)
2. Cries & Whispers II (5:19)
3. Cries & Whispers III (8:13)
4. Cries & Whispers IV (10:57)
5. Cries & Whispers IV (9:08)
6. Cries & Whispers VI (10:35)
7. Cries & Whispers VII (5:58)

Record label & other notes
Cadence (CJR) #1111

Let Paul Robeson Sing (2002)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor sax, flugelhorn, alto clarinet);
Joe Giardullo (flute, bass clarinet);
Michael Bisio (bass);
Dominic Duval (bass)

Track list
Episode I: Renaissance - Harlem Spiritual
Episode II: Peekskill (1949) - 1st Movement: Prelude, 2nd Movement: August 27th, 3rd Movement: September 4th
Episode III: For Paul - Here I Stand, At The Peace Arch
Episode IV: Water Boy/ Deep River/ Ol’ Man River

Record label & other notes
CIMP CD257

Optometry (2002)

Personnel
DJ Spooky - acoustic bass, kalimba, turntables
Carl Hancock Rux - vocals
Napoleon - rap vocals
Daniel Bernard Roumain - violin
Pauline Oliveros - accordion
Daniel Carter - alto saxophone
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, trumpet
Matthew Shipp - piano
William Parker - bass
Guillermo E. Brown - drums

Track list
1. Ibid, Desmarches, Ibid
2. Reactive Switching Strategies For The Control Of Uninhabited Air
3. Variation Cybernetique: Rythmic Pataphysic (Part I)
4. Asphalt (Tome II)
5. Optometry
6. Sequentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I)
7. Rosemary
8. Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II)
9. Parachutes
10. Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III)
11. Variation Cybernetique: Rythmic Pataphysic (Part II)
12. Periphique
13. It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, World

Record label & other notes
Thirsty Ear THI 57121.2

American Scrapbook (2002)

Personnel
Dominic Duval String & Brass Ensemble
Dominic Duval (Bass);
Jason Hwang (Violin);
Tomas Ulrich (Cello);
Tom Varner (French Horn);
Joe McPhee (Cornet);
Steve Swell (Trombone).

Track list
1. America
2. Tomastom
3. ’Round Midnight
4. Hackeysack
5. Amazing Grace
6. A Little Fun Thing
7. Jomanik Duphee
8. Tutti’s Coda
9. Plumbing the Lines pt. 1
10. Plumbing the Lines pt. 2
11. Goodnight Meditation
12. Low and Down
13. America - take 2

Record label & other notes
CIMP 261 CD

Trio X in Black and White (2002)

Personnel
Trio X: Joe McPhee (saxophone);
Dominic Duval (bass);
Jay Rosen (drums)

Track list
1. Intro: God Bless the Child (7:55)
2. Round Midnight and Later (13:59)
3. Blood at the Root (16:35)
4. Sida’s Song (17:54)
5. Wait Until Evening (8:01)
6. Going Home (8:16)

Record label & other notes
Cadence (CJR) 1144 recorded live at Edgefest 1999, Ann Arbor, & at the Vision Festival 2001, N.Y.C.

Sustain (2002)

Personnel
Matt Maneri Quartet + Joe McPhee:
Mat Maneri (acoustic & electric violin);
Craig Taborn (piano, keyboards);
William Parker (bass);
Gerald Cleaver (drums),
Joe McPhee (tenor saxophone).

Track list
1. Alone (Origin) (6:00)
2. In Peace (8:52)
3. Alone (Construct) (4:53)
4. Sustain (8:13)
5. Alone (Unravel) (3:39)
6. Nerve (9:07)
7. Alone (Cleanse) (2:52)
8. Divine (7:24)
9. Alone (Mourn) (2:16)

Record label & other notes
Thirsty Ear THI 57122, Live Recording

Chicago Tenor Duets (2002)

Personnel
Evan Parker - tenor sax
Joe McPhee - tenor sax

Track list
1. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 2 (4:50)
2. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 3 (4:47)
3. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 4 (5:15)
4. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 5 (10:54)
5. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 6 (3:10)
6. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 7 (2:37)
7. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 9 (6:49)
8. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 8 (10:55)
9. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 11 (10:43)
10. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 12 (5:26)
11. Evan Parker and Joe Mcphee -- Duet 13 (3:09)

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk 033, recorded in 1998

Vivid (2001)

Personnel
Kali Fasteau (sorpano sax, voice, nai & kaval flutes, mizmar, drum set, moursin, sanza);
Hamid Drake (drum set, bindir, voice);
Sabir Mateen (alto and tenor sax, bamboo side flute);
Joe McPhee (sorpano sax, pocket trumpet);
Ron McBee (djembe, african percussion);
William Parker (contrabass)

Track list
1. Orange (2:50)
2. Red (5:05)
3. Turquoise (4:26)
4. Aquamarine (2:04)
5. Sun Yellow (12:06)
6. Chartreuse (6:27)
7. Tangerine (5:40)
8. Sienna (1:50)
9. Tamil Blue (2:03)
10. Royal Purple (4:16)
11. Pimento (5:07)
12. Heliotrope (3:10)
13. Violet (1:42)
14. Sea Green (5:45)
15. Magenta (8:21)

Total Time: 71:07

Record label & other notes
Flying Note, 2001

No Borders (2001)

Personnel
The Nihilist Spasm Band (from Canada) & Joe McPhee;
John Boyle - kazoo, drums, thumb piano
John Clement - guitar, drums
Bill Exley - vocals, kazoo, cooking pot
Murray Favro - guitar, drums
Hugh McIntyre - bass
Art Pratten - Pratt-A-Various, water pipe
Joe McPhee - tenor sax, pocket cornet, didgeridoo, Casio sax, vocals

Track list
Disc 1 (live concert performances except track 8 which is a studio recording)
1. Nihilist Party Lights (JM, vo)
2. Duet (BE, vo; JM, did)
3. United Nations (BE, vo, k; JB, k; JC, g; AP, wp; JM, cor)
4. Going Too Far (JB, d; JC, g; BE, vo; MF, g; HM, b; AP, pv; JM, ts)
5. Poughkeepsie (JB, d; JC, g; HM, b; JM, ts)
6. Why Try (JB, k; JC, d; BE, vo; MF, g; HM, b; AP, pv; JM, ts)
7. Acrostics (BE, vo; MF, g; HM, b; AP, wp; JM, Cs)
8. Trio (JC, d; HM, b; JM, cor, ts)
9. Victor (JB, tp; JC, d; BE, vo; MF, g; AP, wp; JM, ts)
Disc 2 (studio recordings)
1. Do It My Way (JB, k; JC, d; BE, vo, k; MF, g; HM, b; AP, wp; JM, ts)
2. Boing (AP, wp; JC, g; MF, g; JM, ts)
3. Meateater (BE, vo; HM, b; AP, pv; JM, ts, vo)
4. Unlikely (MF, d; AP, pv)
5. Mature Consideration (JB, d; JC, g; BE, vo, k, cp; MF, g; HM, b; AP, wp; JM, ts)
6. Stridor (JB, k; JC, g; AP, wp)
7. Helpless (JB, d; BE, vo; MF, g; HM, b; JM, ts)
8. Road Kill (JB, k; JC, d; AP, wp; JM, ts)
9. Duet Again (BE, vo; JM, did)

Record label & other notes
Non Musica Rex (Canada) NMRx 0002
double CD (stage & studio), London, Ontario, 2000/released in 2001

Emancipation Proclamation (2001)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, tenor saxaphone;
Hamid Drake - drums, percussion

Track list
1. Cries and Whispers (18:37)
2. Mother Africa (For Miriam Makeba) (17:10)
3. God Bless the Child (4:18)
4. Emancipation Proclamation (14:30)
5. Hate Crime Cries (3:14)

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk OD12O36, 1999, Chicago
released in 2001

Voices & Dreams (2001)

Personnel
Raymond Boni (electric guitar);
Joe McPhee (pocket trumpet, alto & tenor saxophones)

Track list
1. Voices I
2. Dream I
3. Voices II
4. Dream II
5. Voices III
6. Dream III
7. Voices IV

Record label & other notes
Emouvance (France) EMV 1O16
25th~anniversary celebration of playing duets

Abstract (2001)

Personnel
Joe McPhee w/ Maury Coles, Colin Fisher, Jason Hammer, Justin Rebelo

Record label & other notes
AMI OO3 (Canada) CD,

Mr. Peabody Goes to Baltimore (2001)

Personnel
Joe McPhee: pocket trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, voice;
Jack Wright: reeds;
Ian Nagoski: electronics;
Michael Johnsen: self-built electronics, soprano sax, saw;
Seen Meehan: percussion;
James Coleman: theremin;
Jerry Lim: guitar

Track list
1. Before the Fall;
2. Night of the Krell;
3. Klatu;
4. Homeless.

Record label & other notes
High Zero 005 CD

Specific Gravity (2001)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - Sax (Soprano), Electronics, Trombone (Valve), Clarinet (Alto), Main Performer;
Joe Giardullo - Flute, Clarinet (Bass), Electronics, Sax (Soprano).

Track list
1. A Priori
2. Specific Gravity
3. After the Rain
4. Sienna

Record label & other notes
Boxholder BXH O21
Recorded live on WPKN, Bridgport, CT 9/27/97

On Tour (2001)

Personnel
Trio X:
Joe McPhee (saxophone);
Dominic Duval (bass);
Jay Rosen (drums)

Track list
1. Monkin’ Around (Blue Monk)
2. Try A Little Tenderness
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Trail of Tears (For Jim Pepper)
5. Old Eyes

Record label & other notes
Cadence CD #CJR1134
Recorded March 25, 2001 in Toronto, Canada and March 24 in Rochester, NY

Live in Concert (live at the Knitting Factory) (2000)

Personnel
Dominic Duval String Ensemble:
Jason Hwang (Violin);
Tomas Ulrich (Cello);
Dominic Duval (Hutchins Bass);
Joe McPhee (Tenor Saxophone);
Mark Whitecage (Clarinet).

Track list
1. The Market
2. Flight Time
3. Next Stop Paris
4. On the Wire
5. And Then There Was None
6. Point of Order "The Triplets"
7. Conclusion "Sunset"

Record label & other notes
Cadence Jazz 1097, 1998
Live performance at the Knitting Factory

For Frank Wright (2000)

Personnel
A.M.I.S. Quartet:
Joe McPhee, trombone, cornet, saxophone;
André Jaumes, saxophones and clarinet;
Daunik Lazro, alto and baritone saxophones;
Jérôme Bourdellon, flutes and bass clarinet

Record label & other notes
Label Usine, France, Recorded May 6, 1992

In the Spirit (2000)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Bluette Quartet)
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Joe Giardullo (Flute);
Michael Bisio (Bass);
Dominic Duval (Bass).

Track list
1. Deep River
2. People Get Ready
3. God Bless the Child
4. Birmingham Sunday/Come Sunday
5. Astral Spirits
6. Just A Closer Walk With Thee

Record label & other notes
CIMP 199, Recorded March 17 & 18, 1999

No Greater Love (2000)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Bluette Quartet)
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Joe Giardullo (Bass Clarinet);
Michael Bisio (Bass);
Dominic Duval (Bass)

Track list
1. Deep River
2. Deep Sheep
3. Nancy
4. No Greater Love
5. Strangers In a Strange Land
6. Ferocious Beauty
7. Deep Sleep
8. Get That Name
9. We Just Think It

Record label & other notes
CIMP 209, Recorded March 17 & 18, 1999

Grand Marquis (2000)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - Sax (Tenor), Poetry, Main Performer;
John McLellan - Drums, Producer,

Track list
1. Never the More (6:32)
2. Glommed (6:23)
3. Durt Kolphy (5:55)
4. The Legendary (5:11)
5. Never the Less (8:03)
6. ABL (6:49)
7. Grand Marquis (5:28)
8. Que Phenomena (11:37)
9. Odo’s Return to the Link (3:59)

Record label & other notes
Boxholder 004, Release Date: Jan 1, 2000
Original Release Date: Aug 23, 1999

Undersound (2000)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - soprano saxophone;
John Heward - vocals;
Dominic Duval - bass, main performer

Track list
1. Undersound I
2. Undersound 2
3. Undersound 3
4. Undersound 4
5. Undersound 5
6. Undersound 6
7. Undersound 7
8. Undersound 8
9. Undersound 9
10. Undersound 10

Record label & other notes
Leo Records CD LR295, 1998

Musica Libera (2000)

Personnel
Thomas Eckert - CH b-cl, cl,
René Krebs - CH flh, tp,
Joe McPhee - US co, flh,
Pit Gutmann - CH d,

Record label & other notes
HatMusic
Recording: 1982

CIMPhonia 1998 2~CD set (1999)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Mark Whitecage (Soprano Saxophone);
Paul Smoker (Trumpet);
David Prentice (Violin);
Dominic Duval (Bass);
Peter Kowald (Bass);
Jay Rosen (Drums)

Track list
1. Endorpher
2. Fractals.5
3. Finding Strength
4. Zee Zoning
5. Joe’s Idea
6. Standard
7. Tex Ako
8. Wow Wow II

Record label & other notes
CIMP 178, (part 2), recorded May 26 & 27, 1998

The Brass City (1999)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - pocket cornet, valve trombone, soprano saxophone;
Jeb Bishop - trombone.

Track list
1. The Brass City I (12.17)
2. The Brass City II (03.43)
3. The Brass City III (02.15)
4. The Brass City IV (07.16)
5. The Brass City V (04.44)
6. The Brass City VI (05.46)
7. The Brass City VII (03.46)
8. Outpost [for Tom Guralnick] (04.26)
9. Transmute (06.24)
10. The Rozwell incident [for Rozwell Rudd] (08.02)

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk 12O25, 1999
Recorded at Airwave Studio, Chicago on 23 October 1997.

The Dream Book (live at the Knitting Factory) (1999)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (alto saxophone, pocket trumpet);
Dominic Duval (Hutchins bass).

Track list
1. Dance of the Reasons Why
2. Beyond the Truth/Lies
3. Moffett’s Motif
4. Old Eyes
5. Caught in the Moment
6. And Then Red
7. Celebration

Record label & other notes
Cadence/CJR 1105, 1999

Rapture (live at the Knitting Factory) (1999)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Saxophone);
Jay Rosen (Drums);
Dominic Duval (Bass);
Rosi Hertlein (Violin).

Track list
1. Elegy: Upon Mourning
2. Lift Every Voice and Sing
3. Rapture

Record label & other notes
Cadence/CJR 1106, 1999

The Chicago Octet/Tentet (1998)

Personnel
Peter Brötzmann Octet/Tentet

Track list
Disc 1-Brötzmann Chicago Octet (live):
1. Burning Spirit (for Kazuka Shiraishi) 29:42 Peter Brötzmann
Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (live):
2. Other Brothers 24:39 Ken Vandermark
3. Old Bottles, No Wine 9:46 Mats Gustafsson
4. Aziz 9:46 Michael Zerang

Disc 2-Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (live):
1. Divide By Zero 12:53 Jeb Bishop
2. Foolish Infinity 26:45 Peter Brötzmann
Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (studio):
3. Immediate Music 13:49 Fred Lonberg-Holm
4. Makapoor 12:53 Michael Zerang & Hamid Drake

Disc 3-Brötzmann Chicago Tentet(studio):
1. Foolish Infinity 26:12 Peter Brötzmann
2. Old Bottles, No Wine 9:20 Mats Gustafsson
3. Other Brothers 24:44 Ken Vandermark
4. Divide By Zero 10:40 Jeb Bishop

Description and other notes:
- recorded at AirWave Studio (9/16/97)
Tentet & The Empty Bottle (1/29/97) Octet & (9/17/97) Tentet by John McCortney

Record label & other notes
Okka Disk OD12O22,
3~CD set, 1998

Music for a New Place (Novio Iolu) (1998)

Personnel
Jérôme Bourdellon - Flute, Shakuhachi, Flute (Alto), Flute (Bass)
Joe McPhee - Trumpet, Clarinet (Alto), Didjeridu, Main Performer, Liner Notes

Track list
1. This Space Is Time (9:41)
2. Aerial (8:56)
3. Please No World Music (7:29)
4. La Valse Vosgienne (15:23)
5. Enough Is Enough (6:09)

Record label & other notes
Label Usine 1OO2, France, 1998

CIMPhonia 1998 2~CD set (1998)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Mark Whitecage (Alto Saxophone);
Paul Smoker (Trumpet);
David Prentice (Violin);
Dominic Duval (Bass);
Peter Kowald (Bass);
Jay Rosen (Drums)

Track list
1. Estrus
2. Good Clean Fun
3. Sterono
4. Looking For Space
5. Making Space
6. Hello Alto
7. Bo Peep
8. With No Song

Record label & other notes
CIMP 173, (part 1), 1998

Zebulon (tenor & bass duets) (1998)

Personnel
Michael Bisio & Joe McPhee

Track list
1. Makeover Makeover
2. Kind of a Ballad
3. Duosalbosity 2
4. Something Different
5. Gracie’s Amazing
6. Undulation
7. Denis&Charles

Record label & other notes
CIMP 179, recorded July 6 & 7, 1998

The Watermelon Suite (1998)

Personnel
Trio X:
Joe McPhee (Soprano Saxophone);
Dominic Duval (Bass);
Jay Rosen (Drums).

Track list
1. Points
2. The Watermelon Suite part 1 - The Whole
3. The Watermelon Suite part 2 - The Rind
4. The Watermelon Suite part 3 - The Meat
5. The Watermelon Suite part 4 - The Seeds
6. Wecotdo part 1
7. Wecotdo part 2
8. Soundboard Safari
9. Solero (to Glenn Spearman)
10. A Ballad in Their Own Way
11. Putter Piece
12. My Funny Valentine

Record label & other notes
CIMP 183, recorded May 26 & 27, 1998

Comraderie (1998)

Personnel
Kali Fasteau (soprano sax, voice, nai and kaval flutes, cello, sheng);
Bobby Few (piano);
Noah Howard (alto sax);
Joe McPhee (tenor sax);
Sonelius Smith (piano);
Warren Smith (drums);
Mike Wimberly (djembe, talking drum, percussion)

Track list
1. Blessings (2:39)
2. Joyful Blues (9:41)
3. Hopes Become Real (3:29)
4. Bayou Dream (3:24)
5. Whispersong (6:08)
6. Tender Optimism (9:03)
7. Ethiopia (6:29)
8. Double Vanish (2:08)
9. Rhapsody With Few (3:26)
10. Transpersonal (3:08)
11. Moonlight in Motion (2:19)
12. Evening on the Ganges (6:21)
13. Ready Room (4:16)
14. A Gift (5:13)

Record label & other notes
Flying Note, released 1998

Children in Peril Suite (1997)

Personnel
Lisle Ellis (Main Performer, Bass);
Joe McPhee (Trumpet, Saxophone);
Marco Eneidi (Sax (Alto));
Dana Reason (Piano).

Track list
1. Vivification (5:23)
2. Before or After (4:10)
3. Children in Peril (4:54)
4. Secreted Blues (4:59)
5. Forgotten (For A.B.) (10:17)
6. Anticipation of an Embrace (4:03)
7. Monkeyshines (5:27)
8. What Love (For L.C.) (5:17)
9. No More Tears (6:08)
10. Adjunct and Adournment (9:19)

Record label & other notes
MUSIC & ARTS PROGRAM 1O16, 1997
Release Date: 03/17/1998

Dourou (1997)

Personnel
Daunik Lazro Quintet
Daunik Lazro - Baryton, Mixing, Sax (Alto), Main Performer;
Joe McPhee - Trumpet, Sax (Tenor, Soprano);
Didier Levallet - Double Bass;
Paul Rogers - Double Bass;
Christian Rollet - Drums;

Track list
1. Pat. (8:36)
2. Africa Lab (20:20)
3. Catty (6:08)
4. Candide (6:38)
5. Malachi (14:42)

Record label & other notes
Blue Regard CT~1954, France, 1997

The October Revolution (1996)

Personnel
Rashied Ali, Borah Bergman, Joe McPhee, Wilber Morris / The Myra Melford Trio.

Track list
1. For Bill Dixon (40:54) - Rashied Ali/Borah Bergman/Joe McPhee/Wilber Morris
2. Death of Danny Love, The (7:34) - Myra Melford Trio
3. For Bill Dixon II (25:13) - Rashied Ali/Borah Bergman/Joe McPhee/Wilber Morris

Record label & other notes
Evidence ECD 22166-2, 1996
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION was recorded live in New York, during a show commemorating the 30th anniversary of the avant-garde concert series The October Revolution In Jazz.

Common Threads (live in Seattle) (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone;
Loren Dempster - cello;
Stuart Dempster - trombone, didjeridu;
Michael Bisio - bass;
Eyvind Kang - erhu, violin.

Track list
Common Threads: Part I. Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry) (47:31)
Common Threads: Part II. Michael’s Cipher (4:06)
Common Threads: Part III. Red Enchantment (For Joe McPhee, Sr.) (7:39)

Record label & other notes
Deep Listening DL~4, 1996

McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, Evan Parker, Daunik Lazro

Track list
1. The Emmet’s Inch (36:59)
2. The Snake and the Scorpion (4:36)
3. Fire on the Water (7:06)
4. And Eagle’s Mile (14:53)

Record label & other notes
Van d’Oeuvre 961O, 1995

Legend Street 1 (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Pocket Trumpet),
Frank Lowe (Tenor Saxophone),
David Prentice (Violin),
Charles Moffett (Drums)

Track list
1. Loweville
2. What We Do
3. Memorium
4. For Panama, Parts 1&2
5. Up, Over, and Out
6. July The 13th
7. Not Yet
8. Trading Space

Record label & other notes
CIMP 115, recorded June 1 & 2, 1996

A Meeting in Chicago (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Kent Kessler

Track list
1. Meeting in Chicago
2. Heart of the Matter
3. Matter of the Heart
4. Soft Circles
5. Breakneck Ridge
6. Central Wisconsin Double Wide
7. Hard Circles
8. Zahava
9. Menga Kala Koota
10. Empty Bottle Blues
11. Lalibela
12. Fourteen Years Later
13. I Leave You Love

Record label & other notes
8th Day EDM 8008, 1996

Legend Street 2 (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Trumpet),
Frank Lowe (Tenor Saxophone),
David Prentice (Violin),
Charles Moffett (Drums)

Track list
1. Something Sweet, Something Tender
2. Consider the Alternative
3. Double Ten
4. E.P.
5. Dark Doings
6. There Was a Flower Near Napoli
7. Not Absolute

Record label & other notes
CIMP 132, recorded June 1 & 2, 1996

Inside Out (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Soprano Sax),
David Prentice (Violin)

Track list
1. Haiku: Part 1 Dawn
2. Haiku: Part 2 The Centipede
3. Haiku: Part 3 The Edge of Wetness
4. It Stings
5. The Garden (For Cecil Taylor) Part 1
6. The Garden (For Cecil Taylor) Part 3
7. The Garden (For Cecil Taylor) Part 2
8. Conference With The Birds (For Dave Holland) Part 1
9. Dusk
10. Drops (For Carmen McRae & Betty Carter)

Record label & other notes
CIMP 120, recorded June 2, 1996

Finger Wigglers (1996)

Personnel
Michael Bisio (Bass),
Joe McPhee (Tenor Saxophone)

Track list
1. Lonely Woman
2. Blue Monk
3. Here’s That Rainy Day
4. Running Out of Time
5. Malachi
6. Going Home
7. Walking Out
8. Lonely Woman - take 2

Record label & other notes
CIMP 127, recorded Sept. 18 & 19, 1996

As Serious As Your Life (1996)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (solo)

Track list
1. The Death of Miles Davis (6:28)
2. A Wish in One Hand (6:42)
3. Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (5:30)
4. As Serious as Your Life 1 (9:11)
5. Haiku Study 1 (4:43)
6. Conlon in the Land of Ra (5:10)
7. The Man I Love (6:47)
8. Tok (2:27)
9. As Serious as Your Life 2 (3:21)
10. After the Rain (5:26)
11. Party Lights (1:03)

Record label & other notes
HatOLOGY 514, 1996

Tosca Salad (1995)

Personnel
Deep Listening Band
Stuart Dempster, David Gamper, Pauline Oliveros, & guests Joe McPhee & others

Track list
1. Off the Beaten Tracker 2:01 Stuart Dempster
2. Renko’s Birthday 2:52 Stuart Dempster
3. Dempster Oliveros Duet 3:16 Stuart Dempster
4. Gamper Dempster Duet 2:13 Stuart Dempster
5. Oliveros Gamper Duet 2:04 David Gamper
6. Coming Together (excerpt) 5:05 Fritz Hauser
7. Epigraphs in a Time of AIDS (excerpt) 3:24 Pauline Oliveros
8. Dream Time 7:31 Stuart Dempster
9. Not Very Deep Hockets 5:33 David Gamper
10. Saucer’s Apprentice (excerpt) 3:09 Stuart Dempster
11. Ten Ears Celebration 4:15 Joe Giardullo
12. From Now On 7:00 Stuart Dempster

Record label & other notes
Deep Listening DL~3, 1995

The Redwood Session (1995)

Personnel
Evan Parker (Performer), Barry Guy (Bass), Paul Lytton (Drums), Joe McPhee (Trumpet)

Track list
1. Not Yet
2. The Masks
3. Craig’s Story
4. Pedal (for Warren)
5. Then Paul saw the Snake (for Susan)

Record label & other notes
CIMP 101, June 18, 1995

Sweet Freedom, Now What? (1994)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor & soprano saxophones, alto clarinet);
Lisle Ellis (double bass);
Paul Plimley (piano).

Track list
1. Mendacity (slow)
2. Driva’ Man
3. Roost 2
4. Self Portrait
5. Lift Every Voice And Sing
6. Singing With A Sword In My Hand
7. Roost 1
8. Garvey’s Ghost
9. Approaching The Smoke That Thunders
10. Triptych
11. Prolepsis
12. Mendacity (fast)
13. The Persistence Of Rosewood
14. Roost (Coda)

Record label & other notes
Original release: HatART 6162, 1994
Re-released: hatOLOGY 602, 2008
liner notes by Max Roach
Recorded by Peter Pfister at Radio Studio DRS Zurich on July 27 and 28, 1994.

Elevations (1993)

Personnel
Lisle Ellis Ensemble

Lisle Ellis - Bass, Contrabass, Main Performer
Larry Ochs - Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor);
Glenn Spearman - Sax (Tenor);
Christopher Cauley - Sax (Alto);
Donald Robinson - Drums;
Joe McPhee - Vocals.

Track list
1. Gounrd (Take 1) (12:08)
2. Lacuna (6:02)
3. Life Cycle (5:16)
4. Reach (3:56)
5. P.B.’s Parable (4:29)
6. ARC (2:49)
7. Mothers (6:05)
8. Re: Call (8:24)
9. Ground (Take 2) (12:06)

Record label & other notes
Victo C CDO27, 1993

Sanctuary (1993)

Personnel
Deep Listening Band:
Stuart Dempster (trombones, didjeridu, garden hose)
Pauline Oliveros (just tuned accordion, electronics)
David Gamper (organ, overtone flutes, electronics)

Track list
1. INVOCATION (June 1993) 10:51
Deep Listening Band with
Julie Lyon Balliet, voice
2. HI BALI, HI (January 1994) (10:42)
Deep Listening Band with Expanded Instrument System
3. PROCESSIONAL (June 1993) (8:45)
Deep Listening Band with
Julie Lyon Balliet, voice
4. SANCTUARY (January 1994) (11:55)
Deep Listening Band with Expanded Instrument System
5. NON-STOP FLIGHT (January 1994, excerpt) (20:43)
Deep Listening Band with
Thomas Buckner, Julie Lyon Balliet, voices
Joe McPhee, bass-clarinet & pocket trumpet
Margarit Shenker, just-tuned accordion, voice
Nego Gato, Carol Chappell, Brazilian percussion
Jason Finkleman, Brazilian & found percussion
Women Who Drum: (Leaf Miller, djembe; Lorraine Demerest
& Judith Muldoon, congas, shekere, bells)

Record label & other notes
Mode 46, 1993/94

Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre (1991)

Personnel
Raymond Boni - Guitar;
André Jaume - Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Tenor);
Joe McPhee - Sax (Soprano), Trombone (Valve)

Track list
1. The Train and the River (3:02)
2. Zigliara I (3:30)
3. Zigliara II (1:57)
4. Lazy Tones (2:38)
5. Nenette (6:22)
6. Chirpin’ Time (4:06)
7. La Vie Continue (For Alton Pickens) (3:22)
8. Give Them Their Flowers While They’re Here (3:30)
9. Finger Snapper (1:58)
10. A Portrait of Juanita (3:10)
11. Slow Glow (4:30)
12. Little Big Foot (3:00)
13. The Train and the River (3:57)

Record label & other notes
CELP C21, France, 1991

River Station (1991)

Personnel
Jimmy Giuffre, André Jaume, Joe McPhee
Giuffre, ss, cl;
Jaume, ts, bcl;
Joe McPhee, valve tbn on "Three Way Split."

Track list
1. Yell & Scamper
2. Variations (on a Monk theme)
3. When Things Go Wrong
4. Jeux Libres
5. With Chimes
6. Lizards
7. Slap It!
8. Coll
9. River Station
10. Whispered Moments
11. 35 Smith Street
12. Three Way Split
Total time - 40:51

Record label & other notes
CELP 626, France, 1991
Recorded 9/6/91

Elan/ Impulse (1991)

Personnel
Daunik Lazro, Joe McPhee

Track list
1. Reason I
2. Logic Circles
3. Pearl Street
4. Sand Dancer
5. Come Sunday
6. Reason II
7. Joker
8. Cordered
9. Reason III
10. Arcs

Record label & other notes
In Situ 590075, France, 1991

Something (1990)

Personnel
André Jaume Quartet

Record label & other notes
CELP C15, France, 1990

Linear B (1990)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (solo)

Track list
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 (10:25)
6. Little Pieces: Little Piece 1 (2:05)
7. Little Pieces: Little Piece 2 (2:20)
8. Little Pieces: Little Piece 3 (2:16)
9. Little Pieces: Little Piece 4 (2:01)
10. Little Pieces: Little Piece 5 (2:16)
11. Here’s That Rainy Day (5:44)
12. Imagine a World Without Art (5:52)
13. Voices (6:38)

Record label & other notes
HatArt 6O57 CD, 1990

On Musique’s Action (1989)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, soprano and alto saxphone, pocket trumpet, alto clarinet;
Evan Parker, tenor and soprano saxophone;
Daunik Lazro, alto and baritone saxophone.

Track list
1. The Emmet’s inch (36.54)
2. The snake and the scorpion (04.33)
3. Fire on the water (07.02)
4. And eagle’s mile (14.55)

Record label & other notes
Van d’Oeuvre 93O4 CD, France, 1989

Future Retrospective (1987)

Personnel
Joe McPhee

Track list
1. When You Hear Music (8:13)
2. After It’s Over (7:33)
3. It’s Gone in the Air (11:59)
4. You Can Never Capture It Again (7:14)

Record label & other notes
hatART LP 2033, May 1987

Visitation (1983)

Personnel
Joe McPhee & Bill Smith Ensemble
Bill Smith - soprano, sopranino and alto saxophones
David Lee - bass
David Prentice - violin
Joe McPhee - flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, tenor and soprano saxophones
Richard Bannard - drums

Track list
1. Exuma [04:15]
2. Eleuthera [10:13]
3. Home At Last [07:05]
4. Ghosts [07:14]
5. If I Don’t Fall [05:40]
6. A-Configuration [08:17]

Record label & other notes
Sackville C~3O36, Canada, 1983
reissued on Boxholder CD #BXH O34, 2003

Songs and Dances (1983)

Personnel
Raymond Boni;
André Jaume;
Joe McPhee.

Record label & other notes
CELP C4, France, 1983

Oleo (1982)

Personnel
Joe McPhee Po Music
Joe McPhee (trumpet);
Radu Malfatti (tb) (synth);
André Jaune (bcl) (alto sax);
Raymond Boni (guitar);
François Mechali (bass);
Pierre Favre (drum) + others

Track list
1. Lonely woman
2. Oleo
3. Pablo
4. Future retrospective
5. Astral spirits
6. I remember Clifford
7. Ann Kahlé

Record label & other notes
Hat Musics 3514, Switzerland, 1982
reissued on CD, hatOLOGY 579, 2004

Topology (1981)

Personnel
André Jaune (bcl);
Joe McPhee (tenor sax);
Irène Schweizer (piano);
Raymond Boni (guitar);
François Mechali (bass);
Radu Malfatti (percusion);
Michael Overhage (cello) + others

Track list
1. Violets for Pia
2. Age
3. Blues for new Chicago
4. Pithecantropus erectus
5. Topology I&II

Record label & other notes
HatART 1987/88, 2~LP, 1981

Tales & Prophecies (1980)

Personnel
André Jaume;
Joe McPhee.

Track list

Record label & other notes
HatHUT 2R12, 2~LP, 1980

Nation Time (Live at Vassar College) (1979)

Personnel
Joe McPhee, ts, tpt;
Mike Kull, p, el p;
Tyrone Crabb, ac b, el b, tpt;
Bruce Thompson;
Ernest Bostic, perc.
On "Shakey Jake": Otis Greene, as; Herbie Lehman, org; Dave Jones, el g.

Track list
1. Nation Time (18:31)
2. Shakey Jake (13:36)
3. Scorpio’s Dance (8:42)

Record label & other notes
CJR 2; reissued on Unheard Music / Atavistic CD #
UMS/ ALP 201
1970, 2000

Old Eyes and Mysteries (1979)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (alto sax) (tenor sax);
André Jaume (bcl) (tenor sax);
Jean-Charles Capon (cello);
Raymond Boni;
Steve Gnitka (guitar);
Pierre-Yves Robert (bass);
Milo Fine (piano) (drum)

Track list
1. Eroc tinu
2. Land dance
3. Old eyes
4. Django
5. No line
5. Strings

Record label & other notes
HatHUT 1 R0~1, 1979
CD 6047, 1990

MFG in Minnesota (1978)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor sax) (ss) (co);
Steve Gnitka (guitar);
Milo Fine (cl) (piano) (drum)

Track list
1. Part 1B (17:05)
2. Part 1C (8:39)
3. Part IIA (5:54)
4. Part IIb (18:14)
5. Part IIC (11:03)
6. Part IID (5:52)

Record label & other notes
HatHUT S/T 2~LP, 1978

Graphics (1977)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor sax) (ss) (trumpet) (solo)

Track list
1. Graphics 3/4
2. Legendary heroes
3. Vieux carré
4. Daisy bones
5. Tenor 2
6. Anamorphosis
7. Trumpet
8. Graphics 2/4

Record label & other notes
HatHUT I/J 2~LP, 1977

Variations on a Blue Line (1977)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - tenor sax (solo)

Track list
1. Beanstalk
2. Motian studies
3. Variations on a blue line
4. ’round midnight

Record label & other notes
HatHUT O, 1977

Glasses (1977)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor sax) (flh) (percusion);
Reto Weber (percusion)

Track list
1. Glasses
2. Naima
3. New potatoes

Record label & other notes
HatHUT P, 1977

Tenor (1976)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone (solo)

Track list
1. Knox
2. Good-Bye Tom B.
3. Sweet Dragon
4. Tenor
5. Fallen Angels

Record label & other notes
Tenor (solo) Switzerland, 1976 (vinyl);
Tenor + Fallen Angels (also solo!), Paris, 1977 (double LP)
HatHUT C;
hatOLOGY 544 1976 (vinyl); 2000 (CD)

Rotation (1976)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (tenor sax);
John Snyder (synth);
Marc Levin (trumpet) (flh)

Track list
1. Sweet dragon
2. Episode 2&3
3. Bahamian folksong
4. Spaces
5. Rotation

Record label & other notes
HatHUT D, 1976

The Willisau Concert (1975)

Personnel
Joe McPhee (Sax (Soprano, Tenor), Main Performer);
Makaya Ntshoko (Drums);
John Snyder (Synthesizer, Voices)

Track list
1. Touchstone (12:30)
2. Voices (11:30)
3. Baliamian Folksong (16:20)
4. Harriet (09:40)

Record label & other notes
HatHUT B, 1975

Pieces of Light (1974)

Personnel
Joe McPhee: tenor saxophone, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, alto horn, flute, chimes, harp, voice;
John Snyder: synthesizer

Track list
1. Prologue/Twelve;
2. Shadow Sculptures;
3. Les Heros Sont Fatigues;
4. Windows In Dreams;
5. Red Giant;
6. Colors In Crystal.

Record label & other notes
CJR 4, 1974
Reissue on CD 2005 - Atavistic / Unheard Music Series

Trinity (1971)

Personnel
Joe McPhee: tenor and soprano saxophones, trumpet, pocket cornet;
Mike Kull: piano and electric piano;
Harold E. Smith: percussion.

Track list
1. All Falls Down
2. Never Let Me Down
3. Get Em High
4. Slow Jamz
5. Through the Wire
6. Last Call

Record label & other notes
CJR 3 (vinyl); reissued on Unheard Music / Atavistic ALP-214CD

71, 2001

At WBAI`s Free Music Store (1971)

Personnel
Joe McPhee Survival Unit II
Joe McPhee: trumpet & tenor sax;
Clifford Thornton: baritone sax;
Byron Morris: soprano & alto sax;
Mike Kull: piano;
Harold E. Smith: drums.

Track list
1. Announcement 1 (0:33)
2. Black Magic Man (6:25)
3. Announcement 2 (0:35)
4. Nation Time (14:12)
5. Song for Lauren (13:17)
6. Announcement 3 (0:33)
7. Message from Denmark (13:39)
8. The Looking Glass 1 (16:01)
9. Harriet (13:35)

Record label & other notes
HatART, reissued on HatART limited edition CD #6197, 1996
1971, 1996, Switzerland

Black Magic Man (1970)

Personnel
Joe McPhee - Trumpet, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Main Performer
Mike Kull - Piano
Bruce Thompson - Percussion

Track list
1. Black Magic Man (9:30)
2. Song for Laureen (9:25)
3. Hymn of the Dragon Kings (17:10)

Record label & other notes
HatHUT A, 1970, Switzerland

Underground Railroad (1969)

Personnel
Joe McPhee Quartet & Contemporary Improvisation Ensemble

Disc One:
Joe McPhee - trumpet, pocket cornet, tenor saxophone;
Reggie Marks - tenor & soprano saxophone, flute;
Tyrone Crabb - bass;
Ernest Bostic - drums, percussion, vibes.
Recorded: April 13, 1969, West Park, NY.
Disc Two:
Joe McPhee - trumpet, tenor saxophone, alto horn;
Reggie Marks - tenor saxophone, flute, organ;
Otis Greene - alto saxophone, harmonica;
Joe Virgillio - tenor & soprano saxophones;
Tyrone Crabb - bass;
Ernest Bostic - drums, percussion.
Recorded: October 13, 1968, West Park, NY.

Track list
Disc: 1
1. Underground Railraod
2. Harriet
3. Message From Denmark
Disc: 2
1. Justice (Evidence)
2. Windy City Head Stompin’ Blues
3. Birmingham Sunday
4. Spain Adios

Record label & other notes
Underground Railroad (’69), reissued 2001 by Atavistic / Unheard Music Series with the addition of a ’69 concert at Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, NY

CJR 1; Atavistic / Unheard Music Series reissue on 2 CD’s, # UMS/ ALP 226

’68, ’69, 2001

Freedom and Unity (1967)

Personnel
Clifford Thornton’s New Art Ensemble

Clifford Thornton - Valve Trombone;
Sonny King - Alto Saxophone;
Karl Berger - Vibraphone;
Don Moore - Bass;
Harold (Nunding) Avent - Drums;
Joe McPhee - Trumpet;
Jimmy Garrison - Bass;
Edward Avent - Cornet;
Tyrone Crabb - Bass.

Track list
1. Free Huey;
2. 15th Floor;
3. Miss Oula;
4. Kevin (The theme);
5. Exosphere;
6. Uhuru;
7. "O.C.T.";
8. The Wake;
9. Babe’s Dilemma;
10. "O.C.T." (Alt. Take).

Record label & other notes
Third World 9636; Atavistic / Unheard Music Series reissue on CD # UMS/ ALP 225

1967, 2001