Common Threads (album)

Common Threads (subtitled Live at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle) is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1995 and first released on the Deep Listening label.[1]

Common Threads
Live album by
Joe McPhee Quintet
Released1996
RecordedOctober 19, 1995 at the Earshot Jazz Festival at The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, Washington.
GenreJazz
Length59:18
LabelDeep Listening DL4
ProducerJoe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology
McPhee/Parker/Lazro
(1995)
Common Threads
(1996)
A Meeting in Chicago
(1996)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "the quintet creates a spacious yet wonderfully murky chamber music, utilizing timbre as its force for forward momentum. The three-string instruments are given free rein to cover or open spaces inside this mode and create intervals of their own for McPhee and S. Dempster. They create textures in space by employing timbral chromatics of timbre and tonal extension and contraction to achieve their aims".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry)" - 47:30
  2. "Michael's Cipher" - 4:04
  3. "Red Enchantment (For Joe McPhee, Sr.)" - 7:39

Personnel

References

  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
  2. Jurek, Thom. Common Threads – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
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