The Brass City

1999 studio album by Joe McPhee and Jeb Bishop
The Brass City
Studio album by
Joe McPhee and Jeb Bishop
Released1999
RecordedOctober 23, 1997
StudioAirwave (Chicago)
GenreJazz
Length58:44
LabelOkka Disk OD12025
ProducerJeb Bishop and Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology
Specific Gravity
(1997) 		The Brass City
(1999) 		Chicago Tenor Duets
(2002)

The Brass City is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with trombonist Jeb Bishop recorded in 1997 and first released on the Okka Disk label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Allmusic reviewer Joslyn Layne states "The Brass City finds jazz original Joe McPhee and trombonist Jeb Bishop engaging in an interplay of extended techniques and freed-up structures."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee and Jeb Bishop

  1. "The Brass City I" - 12:17
  2. "The Brass City II" - 3:44
  3. "The Brass City III" - 2:16
  4. "The Brass City IV" - 7:16
  5. "The Brass City V" - 4:44
  6. "The Brass City VI" - 5:47
  7. "The Brass City VII" - 3:47
  8. "Outpost" - 4:26
  9. "Transmute" - 6:25
  10. "The Rozwell Incident" - 8:02

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
  2. ^ a b Layne, Joslyn. The Brass City – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 984. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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