Chicago Tenor Duets

2002 studio album by Evan Parker and Joe McPhee
Chicago Tenor Duets
Studio album by
Evan Parker and Joe McPhee
Released2002
RecordedMay 11, 1998
StudioAirwave Studio, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length68:06
LabelOkka Disk
ProducerBruno Johnson
Evan Parker chronology
Unity Variations
(1999)
Chicago Tenor Duets
(2002)
Drawn Inward
(1999)
Joe McPhee chronology
The Brass City
(1999)
Chicago Tenor Duets
(2002)
The Watermelon Suite
(1999)

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

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

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."[3]

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)."[4]

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

References

  1. ^ Chicago Tenor Duets at Okka Disk
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1125. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Taylor, Derek. Chicago Tenor Duets review at All About Jazz
  4. ^ Litweller, John. Chicago Tenor Duets review at JazzTimes
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