Joe McPhee

Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scenes in the late 1960s and early '70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. His 1970 release Black Magic Man was the first album issued on Hat Hut Records, and found him building on the music of artists like John Coltrane and Albert Ayler. He continued that development over the next 50 years, joining dozens of luminaries including Jimmy Giuffre and Andre Jaume (River Station, 1993), Ken Vandermark (A Meeting in Chicago, 1997), and Peter Brötzmann (Guts, 2013), and workin...