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Trio X

2004

"The musicians address a narrow window within a broad perspective. The recording as a whole describes a memory of the epitome of the Harlem Renaissance and how musicians came out of that time still longing for a recurrence of the dream of the focal point which was Sugar Hill- --where resided the quintessence of the African-American culture.... one whole world within a geometry of avenues and streets. The music possesses a substantive subtlety. It is taut and somewhat restrained, even though the fluidity of McPhee’s tenor lines overrides the tightness of the rhythm section. The music is soft even when it is loud. The music grows out of melody into abstraction easily, without fracture (Lyn Horton, jazzreview.com)"

Trio X

1999

"McPhee is such a versatile player that sparks fly whether he blows a saxophone or trumpet. Here, he performs solely on the soprano sax, joined by bassist Dominic Duval and percussionist Jay Rosen. The mood is generally more pensive than to be expected, although fires are lit in a few of the pieces. McPhee shows himself to be a thoughtful, sensitive player, where every note counts and space is just as important. - Steve Loewy, AllMusic "

John Butcher / Andy Moor / Thomas Lehn

2001

The Vandermark 5

1999

Jaap Blonk & Terrie Ex

2018

Spaceways Inc.

2000

Rodrigo Amado

2015

Nate Wooley / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Jason Roebke

2009

"This music induces a magical meditation—so abstract, so non-melodic, and so persistent in its vagaries that its appreciation is subject to transcendence, the skirting of analysis and just going with the flow."

Joe McPhee / Jamie Saft / Joe Morris / Charles Downs

2015

Ab Baars

2010

"This is a varied recording, a generous offering of personable, personal, and pleasingly experimental songs. Baar's employs just the right amount of stream of consciousness to soulfulness in his melodies to make 'Time to do my lions' a fascinating one."

Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love

2008

Joe Morris & Nate Wooley

2010

Paal Nilssen-Love

2005

Wildlife

2011

Duo Baars - Henneman & Dave Burrell

2017

"The brilliance of this trio is proved most powerful when we start to think about all the other moments they could have uttered a note and most certainly would have changed the direction of the music... from beginning to end this is marvellous, improvised music. A music so marvellous that we tend to forget that it did not exist before Ab Baars, Dave Burrell and Ig Henneman stepped on the stage of the Bimhuis that one night in September. And which after that intriguing concert did exist only as a memory. Until now. (Mischa Andriessen)"

Duo Baars Henneman & Dave Burrell

2017

Territory Band-1

2001

Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor

2013

DKV Trio

2002

Harold E. Smith / Mike Kull / Joe McPhee

2001

"McPhee states that Trinity was the first record where he really began to feel comfortable with his tenor playing. Drinking in his work on each of his horns over the duration of the album it’s startling how much of McPhee the mature player is already solidly in place and his explanation takes on new candor. Curiously the gothic sword and sorcery cover illustration is left unexplained."