Chicago Tenor Duets Explained

Chicago Tenor Duets
Type:studio
Artist:Evan Parker and Joe McPhee
Cover:Chicago_Tenor_Duets_cover.jpeg
Released:2002
Recorded:May 11, 1998
Studio:Airwave Studio, Chicago
Genre:Jazz
Length:68:06
Label:Okka Disk
Producer:Bruno Johnson
Chronology:Evan Parker
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Chicago Tenor Duets is an album by British jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and American saxophonist Joe McPhee, which was recorded in 1998 and released on Okka Disk.[1]

Reception

In a review for All About Jazz, Derek Taylor states "Each man bends to the other’s vernacular with Parker doling out some of his most linear and lyrical jazz phrasings in years and McPhee mimicking the creased multiphonics and split tones that are his partner’s regular sonic nomenclature."[2]

In a multiple review for JazzTimes John Litweller says "If the disc has meandering passages, there are also plenty of successes in which lyricism and complexity twine (and for all their stylistic extremes, there are lyrical strains in both players)."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Parker/McPhee

  1. "Duet 2" – 4:47
  2. "Duet 3" – 4:44
  3. "Duet 4" – 5:12
  4. "Duet 5" – 10:51
  5. "Duet 6" – 3:07
  6. "Duet 7" – 2:33
  7. "Duet 9" – 6:46
  8. "Duet 8" – 10:52
  9. "Duet 11" – 10:40
  10. "Duet 12" – 5:24
  11. "Duet 13" – 3:10

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.okkadisk.com/releases/od12033.html Chicago Tenor Duets
  2. Taylor, Derek. Chicago Tenor Duets review at All About Jazz
  3. Litweller, John. Chicago Tenor Duets review at JazzTimes