Common Threads (album)

Common Threads
Common Threads
Live album by Joe McPhee Quintet
Released	1996
Recorded	October 19, 1995 at the Earshot Jazz Festival at The Tractor Tavern, Seattle, Washington.
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:18
Label	Deep Listening DL4
Producer	Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology

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]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

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

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

Personnel[]

Joe McPhee - pocket trumpet, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Stuart Dempster - trombone, didjeridu, little instruments
Eyvind Kang - violin, erhu
Loren Dempster - cello
Michael Bisio - bass

References[]

^ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. Common Threads – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 983. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Joe_McPhee_discography-1] Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. Common Threads – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2015.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 983. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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Studio albums	Pieces of Light (1974) Old Eyes (1980) Topology (1981) Oleo (1982) Visitation (1985) Linear B (1990) Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre (1992) Sweet Freedom - Now What? (1995) A Meeting in Chicago (1996) As Serious As Your Life (1996) Legend Street One (1996) Legend Street Two (1996) Inside Out (1996) Finger Wrigglers (1996) The Brass City (1997) Chicago Tenor Duets (1998) Zebulon (1998) In the Spirit (1999) No Greater Love (1999) Grand Marquis (1999) Tales Out of Time (2002)
Live albums	Underground Railroad (1969) Nation Time (1971) Black Magic Man (1971) At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 (1971) Trinity (1972) Rotation (1976) The Willisau Concert (1976) Tenor (1977) Graphics (1977) Variations on a Blue Line (1977) Glasses (1977) MFG in Minnesota (1978) Élan • Impulse (1991) McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995) Common Threads (1995) Specific Gravity (1997) The Dream Book (1998) Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom (1999) Manhattan Tango (2000) Port of Saints (2000) Voices & Dreams (2000) Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore (2000) Remembrance (2001) In Finland (2004) Guts (2007) What/If/They Both Could Fly (2012)
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