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Saxophonists · b. 1939

Joe McPhee

American musician

Born: 3 November 1939
Miami
Country: United States
Record labels: Hat Hut Records
Discography: 89 albums

Biography

Joe McPhee is a jazz musician who plays saxophone and trumpet. Joe McPhee was born on 3 November 1939 in Miami. The music is usually filed under jazz and free jazz. Record labels: Hat Hut Records. The discography here lists 89 albums, from “Nation Time” (1970) to “I'm Just Say'n” (2025).

Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who plays the tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, the flugelhorn and the valve trombone. Although born in Miami, Florida, McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is most notable for his free jazz work done from the late 1960s to the present day.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

Nation Time 1970 · Live

Trinity 1972 · CjRecords Pieces of Light 1974 · CjRecord Productions Black Magic Man 1975 · HatHut Records

The Willisau Concert 1976 · Live

Rotation 1977 · HatHut Records Tenor 1977 · HatHut Records

Graphics 1978 · Live

Glasses 1979

Variations on a Blue Line / 'round Midnight 1979 · Live

Old Eyes 1980 · HatHut Records Topology 1981 · hat ART

Visitation 1985

Élan, Impulse 1991 · Live

Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre 1992

Sweet Freedom - Now What? 1995

Common Threads 1996 · Live

Joe McPhee • Evan Parker • Daunik Lazro 1996 · Live

N.Y. N.Y. 1971 1996 · Live

A Meeting in Chicago 1998

As Serious as Your Life 1998

CIMPhonia 1998, Part 1 1998

CIMPhonia 1998, Part 2 1999

The Dream Book 1999

Zebulon 1999

Grand Marquis 2000

No Greater Love 2000

Mister Peabody Goes To Baltimore 2001 · Live

She Knows… 2001

Specific Gravity 2001

In Finland 2005 · Live

Remembrance 2005

Intimate Conversations 2008

Magic 2009

The Damage Is Done 2009

Tribute to Albert Ayler: Live at the Dynamo 2009 · Live

Blue Chicago Blues 2010

Sound on Sound (Solo 1968-1973) 2010

Creole Gardens (A New Orleans Suite) 2011

Ibsen’s Ghosts 2011

OTO 2011

Brooklyn DNA 2012

Ithaca 2012

Scraps and Shadows 2012

Human Encore 2013

Red Sky 2013 · Live

Sonic Elements (For Pocket Trumpet and Alto Saxophone) 2013

Babylon 2014 · Live

Dream Defenders 2014 · Live

Spontaneous Combustion 2014

Alone Together: The Solo Ensemble Recordings 1974 & 1979 2015

Chance Meeting 2015

If You Have Time 2015

Solos : The Lost Tapes (1980 - 1981 - 1984) 2015

Ticonderoga 2015

To Be Continued 2015

Bricktop 2016

Flowers 2016 · Live

Nuclear Family 2016

Octoblue 2016

The Cerkno Concert 2016 · Live

My Undocumented Alien Clarinet 2017

Seattle Symphony 2017

Keep Going 2018

A Night In Alchemia 2019 · Live

Live in the Batcave 2019

The Fire Each Time 2019 · Live

Tree Dancing 2019 · Live

AC / DC 2020

Black Is the Color 2020

Harmonia Macrocosmica 2020

Of Things Beyond Thule, Vol. 1 2020 · Live

Of Things Beyond Thule, Vol. 2 2020 · Live

ERA 2021

Sala Rossa - 2001 2021

Tell Me How Long Has Trane Been Gone (for James Baldwin and John Coltrane) 2021 · Live

Winter Garden 2021

Existential Moments 2022

Sweet Nothings (For Milford Graves) 2022 · Live

A Mouth At Both Ends 2023 · Live

Oblique Strategies 2023 · Live

I'm Just Say'n 2025

A Parallax View

Angels, Devils & Haints

Manhattan Tango · Live

Novio Iolu: Music for a New Place

Reqiphoenix Nexus

Tomorrow Came Today

Voices: 10 Improvisations

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Albums where Joe McPhee is credited as a sideman

1998	1 / 2 / 3 — Brötzmann: The Chicago Octet / The Chicago Tentet	cornet, soprano saxophone, valve trombone, wind instruments
2002	Chicago Tenor Duets — Evan Parker / Joe McPhee	tenor saxophone
2004	Tales Out of Time — Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler & Michael Zerang	wind instruments