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Post by gst on Feb 28, 2018 16:33:52 GMT
First off great album. Now on to vinyl nerd territory.... Does anyone know the history of the sticker on the front on Nation Time? Seems like some first pressing have it and some don't. On a related note if anyone has a copy they're looking to unload I'd be interested   |
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Post by clifford on Feb 28, 2018 16:55:09 GMT
The sticker was only on the shrink of the first pressing. I assume that, indeed, there were more records pressed than stickers made. CjR was a pretty small operation.
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Post by gst on Feb 28, 2018 17:50:35 GMT
Thanks Clifford. As usual you're the man. I thought it was perhaps applied directly to the cover.
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Post by nicknick on Mar 2, 2018 7:44:56 GMT
Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love - Candy (PNL, 2015) 7CD.
A fragment of Joe McPhee's interview from the booklet to this box (btw, it relates to the time period when the Nation Time LP was recorded):
I'm told there was a rumor that you hated drummers.
I don't know who started that rumor. When I was teaching at Vassar College in 1970, I had a rehearsal for an upcoming concert and I invited a new drummer to join the band. I explained that I didn't want him to just be my "rhythm" section supporting me, rather we're all together. We're one. I described what I wanted to happen without telling him how to play, the kind of feeling I wanted. After we took a break, the piano player told me that whatever I said made the drummer very upset and he wanted to kill me. All I said was I didn't want a rhythm section kind of thing. I wanted us all to just play together. Not rhythm and harmony, we're all together. OK, so we cancelled the rehearsal. Later I heard that what I said made him go "insane" and he went after his wife with a claw hammer and tried to kill her. Oh shit! I just said a few things, I had no idea it would make him try to kill somebody.
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Post by nicknick on Mar 3, 2018 19:53:37 GMT
A few helpful hints regarding Joe McPhee from this John Corbett’s book (2015) which cover is decorated with the hippest McPhee’s photo ever.
Best to take your time with Joe McPhee’s music, let it settle in, envelop you, work its alchemy. First step: acquire Tenor, McPhee’s masterpiece for solo tenor saxophone from 1976. It’s been reissued on hat ART, with an unrelated recording “Fallen Angels”. Now listen to Tenor fifteen times. You’re ready for the next step, which means getting ahold of Nation Time, the great LP released on McPhee’s own CjR label in the early ‘70s. We at Corbett vs. Dempsey have issued it as part of four-disc complete sessions box set, along with his first LP for hat Hut, Black Magic Man. After spending some quality time with Nation Time, move along to Oleo (hat ART), a beautiful studio recording with some of McPhee’s French colleagues. Again: rinse, soak, repeat. Picking up speed, you’re ready for both of his duo CDs with Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, starting with Tomorrow Came Today (Smalltown Superjazz). In the process of working through his extensive discography, you can explore how his approach to solo performance has developed by contrasting Tenor (or any contemporaneous ‘70s sol records, such as Glasses or Variations on a Blue Line) with the 2013 solo Sonic Elements (Clean Feed).
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Post by sztiv on Mar 4, 2018 10:30:35 GMT
On a related note if anyone has a copy they're looking to unload I'd be interested That's one expensive record. Think I might take advice from the author of nick's book and begin with a CD of tenor. Sounds fantastic. |
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Post by clifford on Mar 5, 2018 16:07:42 GMT
There is an LP reissue of Nation Time on Bo'Weavil that's more affordable. Also, there are two vintage pressings of Nation Time -- one with blue-green labels and the sticker on the shrink, one with tan labels and no sticker. It is a superb album but Tenor is another story altogether. Candy is fantastic, too!
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