Visitation (Joe McPhee album)
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| 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 | |||
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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
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| 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
- "Exuma" - 4:23
- "Eleuthera" - 10:21
- "Home at Last" (Bill Smith) - 7:14
- "Ghosts" (Albert Ayler) - 7:22
- "If I Don't Fall" (David Prentice) - 5:47
- "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
- ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 20, 2015
- 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Visitation – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
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