Joe Mcphee - Nation Time (Vinyl)

Personnel: Joe McPhee (tenor saxophone, trumpet); Otis Greene (alto saxophone); Tyrone Crabb (trumpet, acoustic & electric basses); Mike Kull (acoustic & electric pianos); Herbie Lehman (organ); Dave Jones (electric guitar); Bruce Thomspon, Ernest Bostic (percussion).Recorded live on December 12 & 13, 1970. Originally released on CJ Records (2). Includes liner notes by Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee and Chris Albertson.All tracks have been digitally remastered.This is part of Atavistic's Unheard Music series.McPhee is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has established himself outside the jazz mainstream. His saxophone and trumpet playing, charged by the Coltrane/Ayler/Shepp canon of the '60s, is unfettered and uncompromising. As a result, his work is generally available through small domestic and European import labels. NATION TIME, a reissue of a long-unavailable album from 1970, presents an emotional, highly-charged set of jazz caught at a crossroads and bears signs of