Visitation (Joe McPhee album)

Visitation
Studio album by Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble
Released 1985
Recorded November 6, 1983 at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto
Genre Jazz
Length 43:31
Label Sackville 3036
Producer Bill Smith
Joe McPhee chronology
Oleo
(1981)
Visitation
(1983)
Songs and Dances
(1987)
Alternative Cover

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.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

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".[2]

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

References

  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 20, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Visitation – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
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