Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark @ Music Unlimited 38, Schloss Puchberg, Wels, Austria, 2024
Eyal Hareuveni wrote this about the set:
The second set featured the one and only
Joe McPhee reading insightful and amusing poems about music, and playing
the tenor sax, accompanied by Vandermark on tenor sax (both have been
collaborating since Vandermark invited McPhee to play in Chicago,
resulting in the album A Meeting in Chicago, Okka Disk, 1998. Check
McPhee reading his poems on Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other
Words by Joe McPhee, Corbett Vs Dempsey, 2024). McPhee told life lessons
of Ornette Coleman who was once asked by trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr.: in
what key would like us to play, and the master answered: the only keys I
have are the keys in my pocket. McPhee finished this inspiring set with
the poem “Fuck Free Jazz”, with McPhee asking the audience to suspend
belief and imagine him reading it in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson:
…Over sixty years is a long time, fuck free jazz, time for new shit.
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