Joe McPhee

Born
November 3, 1939
in Miami, FL 
Active Decades
19001020304050607080902000 
 
by Dave Lynch
Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, Joe Mcphee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, Mcphee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. Mcphee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany; during his Army stint, he was first introduced to traditional jazz. Clifford Thornton's Freedom And Unity, released on the Third World label in 1967, is the first recording on which Mcphee appears. In 1968, he began playing the saxophone and since then has investigated a wide range of instruments (including pocket trumpet, clarinet, valve trombone, and piano), with active involvement in both acoustic and electronic music.



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