{"product_id":"joe-mcphee-nation-time","title":"Joe Mcphee Nation Time","description":"Personnel: Joe McPhee (tenor saxophone, trumpet); Otis Greene (alto saxophone); Tyrone Crabb (trumpet, acoustic \u0026amp; electric basses); Mike Kull (acoustic \u0026amp; electric pianos); Herbie Lehman (organ); Dave Jones (electric guitar); Bruce Thomspon, Ernest Bostic (percussion).\nRecorded live on December 12 \u0026amp; 13, 1970. Originally released on CJ Records (2). Includes liner notes by Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee and Chris Albertson.\nAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\nThis is part of Atavistic's Unheard Music series.\nMcPhee 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 the Black militancy of that era, hard bop, the avant-garde, and the fusion of jazz with funk, rock, and overtly ethnic elements.\nFilled with lengthy, freewheeling and impassioned solos and churning, driving, and funk-laced swing, NATION TIME superbly captures the spirit of its period. McPhee plays in a gutsy style best described as '60s-era Coltrane mixed with the earthiness of Gene Ammons. The band follows McPhee's lead for a sound that crosses Miles Davis' BITCHES BREW with late-'60s James Brown. This music implores, struts, wails and moans, the players testifying with a rare fervor. The disc includes the album's original liner notes and, as a bonus, new notes by idiosyncratic saxophonist\/composer Ken Vandermark.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 1\/18\/19\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Joe Mcphee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50464685031713,"sku":"BZYSYZ-651M-7B","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/5099\/0625\/files\/joe-mcphee-nation-time_eRYBk.jpg?v=1740236740","url":"https:\/\/birds-nest-records.myshopify.com\/products\/joe-mcphee-nation-time","provider":"Bird's Nest Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}