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Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano

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Joe McPhee

Born in Miami in 1939, Joe McPhee was playing the trumpet by the time he was eight years old. From the late 1960's onward, he worked a variety of instruments (all kinds of saxophones, clarinets, trombone, piano). Influenced by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman (pivotal figure in his beginnings as a musician), Joe McPhee is one of the most relevant free and transgressive spirits in reshaping the forms and vocabularies of jazz, and of other creative areas that he helped become adjacent to it. Working early on with some of the most forward thinking musicians of his generation, people with like-minded aesthetical and spiritual concerns, towards the vibrant and the unknown, not only did he play with the cream of the crop of the most clairvoyant European and American jazz, but he also collaborated with the vanguard of electronic music in the 1970's, as is the case with Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Band, a pioneer of continuous music. McPhee's curriculum contains more than half a century's worth of albums, several under his own name released by the HatHut label, which was initially conceived with the exact purpose of releasing his music. He worked with an endless cast of seminal artists over the last four decades, and is today, as much as he was in the past, a major reference as to what new grounds jazz music is treading.

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Mr. McPhee's selected discography under his own name:

Joe Mcphee “Trinity” (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic, 1971)
Joe Mcphee “Tenor” (hatHUT, 1976)
Joe Mcphee “Graphics [live]” (hatHUT, 1977)
Joe Mcphee “The Willisau “Concert [live]” (hatHUT, 1977)
Joe Mcphee “MFG in Minnesota [live]” (hatHUT, 1978)
Joe Mcphee “Topology” (hatART, 1981)
Joe Mcphee “Oleo” (hatOLOGY, 1982)
Joe Mcphee “Visitation” (Boxholder, 1983)
Joe Mcphee “Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre” (Celp, 1992)
Joe Mcphee PO Music “Old Eyes and Mysteries” (Harmonia Mundi, 1992)
Joe McPhee “As Serious as Your Life” (hatOLOGY, 1996)
Joe Mcphee “Voices: Ten Improvisations” (Mode/Avant, 2008)
Joe McPhee “Angels, Devils & Haints” (CJR, 2009)
Joe McPhee “Ibsen'sGhosts” (Not Two Records, 2011)
Joe McPhee “Variations on a Blue Line” (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2012)

As co-leader / sideman :

The Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble “Freedom & Unity” (Third World, 1967)
Joe McPhee andJohn Snyder “Pieces of Light” (CRJ, 1974)
Deep Listening Band “Tosca Salad” (Deep Listening,1995)
Joe McPhee/Evan Parker/Daunik Lazro “McPhee/Parker/Lazro” (Van d'Oeuvre, 1996)
Joe McPhee/Vandermark/Kessler “Meeting in Chicago“ (8th Day, 1996)
Chicago Octet/Tentet “Peter Brötzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet” (Okka Disk, 1998)
Trio X (Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen) “Rapture” (Cadence/CJR, 1998)
Joe McPhee & Johnny McLellan “Grand Marquis” (Boxholder, 1999)
Trio X “Watermelon Suite” (CIMP, 1999)
Hamid Drake/Joe McPhee “Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom” (2000)
The Thing + Joe McPhee “She knows” (Crazy Wisdom, 2001)
Raymond Boni & Joe McPhee “Voices & Dreams” (Emouvance, 2001)
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two “Broken English” (Okka Disk, 2002)
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet Plus Two “Short Visit to Nowhere” (Okka Disk, 2002)
Peter Brötzmann/Joe McPhee/Kent Kessler “Tales Out of Time” (HatOLOGY, 2004)
Territory Band “Map Theory” (2005)
Peter Brötzmann “Guts” (Okka, 2007)
Joe McPhee/Paal Nilssen-Love “Tomorrow Came Today” (Smalltown Supersound, 2009)
Joe McPhee/Roy Campbell/William Parker/Warren Smith “Tribute to Albert Ayler/Live at Dynamo” (Marge, 2009)
Joe McPhee/Dominic Duval/Jay Rosen/Mikolaj Trzaska “Magic” (Not Two Records, 2011)
Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano “Under a Double Moon” (Roaratorio, 2011)
Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano “Scraps And Shadows” (Roaratorio, 2012)

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Chris Corsano

One very significant characteristic of some of the most creative music forms of the early stages of the XXI century is, unlike jazz-rock fusions of the 70's, the fully developed coalition of 60's free-jazz, and spiritually aligned libertary vocabularies. We saw the rock, psychedelia, or minimalism merge with the words of John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, giving birth to new lexical avenues of non-idiomatic forms of expression. Chris Corsano, as a drummer, is probably the first true example of this "total music". Having collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore or Björk, he has developed a percussive language of extraordinary amplitude and infinite resources. He is capable of generating narrative out of permanent ecstasy, leading the eternal cry of sax players and blowers of the 60's to its logical consequence - a supreme continuous howl, marveling us with the resonances and with all the plastic/acoustic possibilities of the skin on his kit. Capable of interacting in the most disparate creative and vocabular settings (he's got a wide interest in many musical forms), he never ceases to be profoundly affirmative and imposing of his language, and being an absolute and charismatic virtuoso, he simultaneously is one of the most noble and generous improvisers of the few last decades.

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Some of Chris' most relevant releases both as solo and sideman/session musician

Jutta Koether Ensemble "Sun Fast" on “Elysian Fields” Soundtrack (Editions Centre Pompidou/Purple Music, 2000)
Flaherty-Corsano Duo “The Hated Music” (Ecstatic Yod, 2001)
Paul Flaherty-Greg Kelley-Chris Corsano “Sannyasi” (Wet paint 3001, 2002)
Sunburned Hand of the Man “Rare Wood” (Spirit of Orr, 2004)
Six Organs of Admittance “School of the Flower” (Drag City, 2004)
Flaherty-Corsano Duo “Last Eyes” (Records 7, 2005)
Jim O'Rourke-Akira Sakata “Oyobare/Tetrodotoxin” (Polystar, 2005)
Jim O'Rourke-Akira Sakata “Explosion” (Polystar, 2006)
Flaherty-Corsano-Yeh “A Rock in the Snow” (Important Records, 2006)
Flower-Corsano Duo “Radiant Mirror” (Textile, 2007)
Björk “Volta” (One Little Indian/Atlantic, 2007)
Thurston Moore Quartet “The Roadhouse Session Vol1” (Shakaijin/Columbia,2007)
Evan Parker-John Edwards-Chris Corsano “A Glancing Blow” (Clean Feed,2007)
Chris Corsano “The Young Cricketer” (Family Vineyard, 2008)
John Edwards-Chris Corsano “Tsktsking” (Dancing Wayang, 2009)
Jailbreak (Chris Corsano & Heather Leigh Murray) “The Rocker” (Family Vineyard,2009)
Flower-Corsano Duo “The Four Aims” (VHF, 2009)
Chris Corsano “Another Dull Dawn” (Ultra Eczema, 2009)
Paul Dunmall-Chris Corsano “Identical Sunsets” (ESP-Disk, 2010)
Rangda “False Flag” (Drag City, 2010)
Chris Corsano-Mats Gustafsson-Thurston Moore-Bill Nace“Mother/Groundhog“ (Ecstatic Peace, 2010)
Nate Wooley-Chris Corsano-C. Spencer Yeh “Seven Storey Mountain” (Important Records, 2011)
Akira Sakata and Chikamorachi “Live at Hungry Brain” (Family Vineyard, 2011)
Akira Sakata and Jim O'Rourke with Chikamorachi “And That's the Story of Jazz” (Family Vineyard, 2011)
Glenn Jones “The Wanting” (Thrill Jockey, 2011) on "The Orca Grande Cement Factory at Victorville"
Flower-Corsano-Hejnowski “The Count Visits” (Flowerhouse/Hot Cars, 2011)
Rangda “Formerly Extinct” (Drag City, 2012)

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Audio

Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - 2 songs from "Scraps and Shadows (Roaratorio, 2012)

Video

Live at The Project Lodge, Madison WI

Live at Tarcento Jazz with Evan Parker

Live at Cafe Oto with John Edwards and Paul Dunmall

Live at Montague Bookmill with Paul Flaherty

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