{"product_id":"nation-time","title":"Nation Time","description":"Personnel: Joe McPhee (tenor saxophone, trumpet); Otis Greene (alto saxophone); Tyrone Crabb (trumpet, acoustic \u0026amp; electric basses); Mike Kull (acoustic \u0026amp; electric pianos); Herbie Lehman (organ); Dave Jones (electric guitar); Bruce Thomspon, Ernest Bostic (percussion).\u003cbr\u003eRecorded live on December 12 \u0026amp; 13, 1970. Originally released on CJ Records (2). Includes liner notes by Ken Vandermark, Joe McPhee and Chris Albertson.\u003cbr\u003eAll tracks have been digitally remastered.\u003cbr\u003eThis is part of Atavistic's Unheard Music series.\u003cbr\u003eMcPhee is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has established himself outside the jazz mainstream. His saxophone and trumpet playing, charged by the Coltrane\/Ayler\/Shepp canon of the '60s, is unfettered and uncompromising. As a result, his work is generally available through small domestic and European import labels. NATION TIME, a reissue of a long-unavailable album from 1970, presents an emotional, highly-charged set of jazz caught at a crossroads and bears signs of the Black militancy of that era, hard bop, the avant-garde, and the fusion of jazz with funk, rock, and overtly ethnic elements.\u003cbr\u003eFilled with lengthy, freewheeling and impassioned solos and churning, driving, and funk-laced swing, NATION TIME superbly captures the spirit of its period. McPhee plays in a gutsy style best described as '60s-era Coltrane mixed with the earthiness of Gene Ammons. The band follows McPhee's lead for a sound that crosses Miles Davis' BITCHES BREW with late-'60s James Brown. This music implores, struts, wails and moans, the players testifying with a rare fervor. The disc includes the album's original liner notes and, as a bonus, new notes by idiosyncratic saxophonist\/composer Ken Vandermark.","brand":"InnerSleeve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42123246207141,"sku":"857661008643","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/6007\/1077\/files\/dc7a48cbea1e2f75a148a39fdc4d2962.jpg?v=1780225147","url":"https:\/\/www.innersleeve.com\/products\/nation-time","provider":"InnerSleeve","version":"1.0","type":"link"}