Visitation (Joe McPhee album) explained

Visitation
Type:Studio
Artist:Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble
Cover:Visitation (Joe McPhee album).jpg
Released:1985
Recorded:November 6, 1983 at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto
Genre:Jazz
Length:43:31
Label:Sackville 3036
Producer:Bill Smith
Chronology:Joe McPhee
Prev Title:Oleo
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Songs and Dances
Next Year:1987

Visitation is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1983 and first released on the Canadian Sackville label, it was rereleased on CD in 2003.[1]

Reception

Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow states "The interplay between these masterful improvisers on group originals and Albert Ayler's classic "Ghosts" is consistently impressive and worthy of a close investigation by the more open-eared segment of the jazz audience".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

  1. "Exuma" - 4:23
  2. "Eleuthera" - 10:21
  3. "Home at Last" (Bill Smith) - 7:14
  4. "Ghosts" (Albert Ayler) - 7:22
  5. "If I Don't Fall" (David Prentice) - 5:47
  6. "A-Configuration" (Smith) - 8:24

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://joemcphee.com/topology.html Joe McPhee discography