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1.1 Nation Time 18:302.1 Shakey Jake 13:322.2 Scorpio's Dance 8:40 |
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| | Description: | Nation Time by Joe Mcphee, released 23 November 2018, includes the following tracks: "Scorpio's Dance " and more.
This version of Nation Time comes as a 1xLP.
The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. - It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka's poem 'It's Nation Time,' and the students at Vassar College didn't know what hit them. 'What time is it?' shouted the bandleader. 'C'mon, you can do better than that. What time is it?!'The music on Nation Time came out of the fertile, but little-known creative jazz scene in Poughkeepsie, New York, McPhee's home base. Two bands were deployed, one with a funky free foundation featuring guitar and organ, the other consisting of a more standard jazz formation with two drummers and the brilliant Mike Kull at the piano. Across the concert and the next afternoon's audience-less recording session, the band was ignited by McPhee's passion and his gorgeous post-Coltrane / post-Pharoah tenor. On 'Shakey Jake,' they hit a James Brown groove filtered through Archie Shepp, while the sidelong title track is as searching and poignant today as it was during it's heyday.Originally released in 1971 on CjR, an imprint started expressly to document McPhee's music, Nation Time has a sense of urgency and inspiration. Additional material from those December days would later appear on Black Magic Man, Hat Hut's first release. In fact, the first four records on this seminal Swiss label all featured McPhee.Nation Time was largely unknown a quarter century or so later, when it was first issued on CD through Atavistic's Unheard Music Series. On Corbett vs. Dempsey, we reissued the album along with all known tapes leading up to and around it as a deluxe box set, but the standalone LP has long remained incredibly rare. Now is the time for a new generation of freaks to lose their shit when settling into the cushy beat of 'Shakey Jake' and answer McPhee's call with the only appropriate response: It's NATION TIME." -John CorbettRecorded live at Vassar College Urban Center for Black Studies. Nation Time and Scorpio's Dance recorded in concert December 12, 1970. Shakey Jake recorded on December 13, 1970.
Includes double sided printed insert with photos and new liner notes. "Nation Time" is a landmark album by the visionary American jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee, now available as a Vinyl Maxi edition from Superior Viaduct. Originally recorded live in 1970 at Vassar College, this explosive session captures the raw energy and revolutionary spirit of free jazz at its peak. The music bursts with improvisational brilliance, blending soulful saxophone lines with driving rhythms and avant-garde experimentation. "Nation Time" stands as an essential document of political urgency and creative freedom within the jazz canon. Joe McPhee?s career spans over five decades; he is celebrated for his boundary-pushing approach to sound and has collaborated with legends such as Peter Brötzmann and Evan Parker. His influence on modern improvised music is profound, earning him international acclaim among critics and peers alike.
Superior Viaduct is renowned for their meticulous reissues of rare, influential recordings across genres?bringing lost classics back into circulation with high-quality pressings and detailed liner notes that honor each release's legacy. | | | No. of tracks: |
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