Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore
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| Live album by Joe McPhee | ||||
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CD, download |
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jazz |
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4th |
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1:00:57 |
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Baltimore High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, Baltimore |
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Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore is a jazz album by Joe McPhee . The recordings, which were made between September 21 and 23, 2000 in various venues of the Baltimore High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music 2000 in Baltimore , were released in 2001 on the Recorded label .
background
The recordings were made in 2000 at the Baltimore High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music , one of the very rare festivals of free improvisation in which the participants with unknown players actually break into new territory unhindered, wrote Eugene Chadbourne ; Joe McPhee's appearances at the High Zero Festival in Baltimore were all first encounters. The recordings were made during four live performances by McPhee in Baltimore, on September 21, 2000 at the American Visionary Arts Museum , on September 22, 2000 at The 14K Cabaret , on September 23, 2000 at The Charles Theater and The Howard Street Bridge . The cast for each performance at the festival was selected by the organizers.
Mister Peabody is in American a collective characterization of all those who come to a foreign city (in this case McPhee to Baltimore), also an allusion to the talking dog from the animated series The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959-64).
Track list
- Joe McPhee: Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore (Recorded 005)
- Before the Fall 33:32
- Night of the Krell 3:30 p.m.
- Klatu 8:38
- Homeless 3:02
The compositions are by Joe McPhee.
reception
Eugene Chadbourne gave the album four stars in Allmusic and wrote that some enjoyable aspects of the grandiose Baltimore scene were the highly original, sometimes downright bizarre electronics and the instrument players who often turned these lengthy pieces into vignettes of convincing variety. More than 33 minutes of Before the Fall is said to be glorious, an opportunity for seasoned improvisers to create enough developments for an orchestral suite, and the listener will no doubt be surprised to see that there are only three musicians performing. Saxophonist Jack Wright is highlighted well, and while this is not his most intense recording, his sympathy for McPhee appears to be complete. Ian Nagoski, Michael Johnson, and James Coleman are some of the electronic dervishes whose contributions are so powerful. “They are like great chilli chefs coming to a competition and their food exudes a bewitching aroma; Johnson also plays the soprano saxophone and has a singing saw on hand while Coleman plays a theremin on "Klatu," a nod to The Day the Earth Stood Still , and this time there is no doubt. In the end, the final trumpet solo entitled Homeless could be the winner. What price? The Peabody Award, of course, ”he jokes.
According to Michael A. Parker, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz , the word “experimental” really carries some weight here, because while most improvisations are inherently based on the pursuit of new musical ideas, even the most celebrated ones move Examples of improvisation typically within certain established parameters, which are often determined by the personal vocabulary of the musician. In contrast, the High Zero Festival, and more generally the Red Room concert series, of which it is an extension, seems to be based on questioning all the parameters of music. The author sees two main ways in which this more radical type of improvisation can be achieved: through musicians who seem to strive to constantly question their own personal vocabulary, or through extremely heterogeneous collaborations. For Joe McPhee the latter applies, so Parker further, and he is sure that he did not suspect that he would associate his name with one of the most explorative and downright strangest improvisation records of the year; he just showed up with his wind instruments and played.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael A. Parker: Joe McPhee: Mr. Peabody Goes to Baltimore. All About Jazz, October 1, 2002, accessed June 28, 2021 .
- ↑ Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Joe McPhee: Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore at Discogs
- ^ Review of Eugene Chadbourne's album on AllMusic . Retrieved June 21, 2021.