Joe McPhee - Cosmic Love

Recorded in Poughkeepsie, NY, 1970. In 1968, the same year that Anthony Braxton made his first solo LP “For Alto“, Joe McPhee began a series of home recordings, assisted by his friend and future producer Craig Johnson. McPhee had initially worked as a trumpeter, and he’d only picked up tenor saxophone earlier in the year. Along with his very first documentation on tenor, these tracks included solo recorder and a starling “sound on sound“ recording, an early commercial overdubbing technique. In years to fol