Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee, born in Miami in 1939 and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser and theorist who has been playing tenor and soprano saxophone, pocket trumpet and valve trombone for more than fifty years. Nation Time (1971) and his other early self-released albums so impressed the Swiss listener Werner Uehlinger that he founded the hat Hut label in 1974 to put them out. He has led Trio X and Survival Unit III, has been a regular partner of The Thing, and has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Raymond Boni, Trespass Trio and Universal Indians among many others.
Joe McPhee, born in Miami in 1939 and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser and theorist who has been playing tenor and soprano saxophone, pocket trumpet and valve trombone for more than fifty years. Nation Time (1971) and his other early self-released albums so impressed the Swiss listener Werner Uehlinger that he founded the hat Hut label in 1974 to put them out. He has led Trio X and Survival Unit III, has been a regular partner of The Thing, and has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Raymond Boni, Trespass Trio and Universal Indians among many others.
