CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Joe McPhee and Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten - Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two, 2010)

Joe McPhee has played with a number of European improvisers during his long and distinguished career, and the rapport he strikes with bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten is immediate and compelling. McPhee plays alto saxophone while Haker-Flaten plays both bowed and plucked bass. The range of sounds and textures that that are able to get some such few raw materials is very impressive, such as on "Cerulean Mood Swing" where McPhee's anguished Albert Ayler inspired saxophone cries out against the solid...

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