Joe McPhee/ Paal Nilsen-Love - Tomorrow Came Today

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Tracklisting
1.   Tomorrow Came Today
2.   Go
3.   Ibsen`s Ghost
4.   Build and Break
5.   Acts Of Time
6.   Sun and Steel
7.   Body Sound
8.   Crossing Messages

Overview
It is a great honor for us to release the work of a true legend, Joe McPhee. His music has been a huge influence on us, and the realization of the duo of Mcphee and Nilssen-Love, has been a dream come true for us. Tomorrow Came Today was recorded in Oslo`s Grandsport Studio, a analog studio that perfectly captures the atmosphere and warmth of these improvisations. One day in studio with improvisations direct to tape. The music is spontaneous raw and groovy, but at the same time mellow, melodic and beautiful. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. (Joakim Haugland & Kim Hiorthøy, Smalltown Superjazzz)

Joe McPhee
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. 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 clarinet, valve trombone, and piano), with active involvement in both acoustic and electronic music. McPhee's first recordings as leader appeared on the CjR label, which he founded in 1969 with painter Craig Johnson. These include Underground Railroad by the Joe McPhee Quartet in 1969, Nation Time by Joe McPhee in 1970, and Trinity by Joe McPhee, Harold E. Smith and Mike Kull in 1971. By 1974, Swiss entrepreneur Werner X. Uehlinger had become aware of McPhee's recordings and unreleased tapes. Uehlinger was so impressed that he decided to form the Hat Hut label as a vehicle to release McPhee's work. The label's first LP was Black Magic Man, which had been recorded by McPhee in 1970. He has since been performing and recording prodigiously as both leader and collaborator, appearing on such labels as CIMP, Okkadisk, Music & Arts, and Victo. McPhee also began a fruitful relationship with Chicago reedman Ken Vandermark. With a career now spanning 30 years & roughly 50 recordings, McPhee has shown that emotional content & theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible -and in fact, a critically important pairing -in the world of creative improvised music. (bio excerpts from All Music Guide)

Paal Nilssen-Love:
Paal Nilssen-Love is one of the most respected on the Scandinavian jazz scene, and his percussion skills are simply awsome! He is part of The Thing, Original Silence, Offonoff, Atomic and Scorch Trio (with Raoul Björkenheim) He has among others played with Joe McPhee, John Butcher, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker, Jim O`Rourke, and Peter Brötzmann to name a few.