Joe McPhees 1977 Solo Album Tenoron LP. Reissued on Vinyl for the First Time!There are lots of outstanding Joe McPhee LPs. Nation Time being chief among them, but theres also Pieces Of Light, Oleoand Topology. The Poughkeepsie, New York-based multi-instrumentalist, by now an international star of free music, has amassed a daunting discography, no doubt. If you want to peer deeply into the soul of Joe McPhee, however, theres no way around it, you need to spend some quality time with Tenor.Tenor is McPhees first solo record. He did not set out to make it. It was an afterthought, quite literally, born of a gathering of friends at the Swiss farmhouse of cellist Michael Overhage. A beautiful meal, some drinks, warm conversation, and why not, an impromptu recital. Hat Hut producer Werner X. Uehlinger was there and a year later issued it as McPhees third LP for the label (Hat Hut C in their famed letter series).The existential blues Knox sets the stage, indicating that this will not just be a toss-off postprandial singalong. Good-Bye Tom B. carries on with aching melancholy, through burred notes and hushed harmonics. The relatively jaunty Sweet Dragon is also emotionally loaded with Ayler-esque vibrato, slurs, wipes, and blasts of tone. The side-long title track comes without a theme, as a kind of pure investigation of the horn, its potential, its limits, its expressive capacity. There have been few solo sessions as comprehensive and devastating as this spontaneous after-dinner diversion in rural Switzerland in 1976. Were very lucky someone pressed record. John Corbett (excerpt from the liner notes) Track Listing
Knox
Good-Bye Tom B.
Sweet Dragon
Tenor
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