Black Magic Man

Black Magic Man
Live album by Joe McPhee
Released 1975
Recorded December 12 and 13, 1970 at Chicago Hall at Vassar College Urban Center for Black Studies
Genre Jazz
Length 35:03
Label HatHut hat HUT A
Producer CjR
Joe McPhee chronology

Nation Time
(1971)
Black Magic Man
(1971)
At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971
(1971)
Alternative Cover

Black Magic Man is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1971 and was the first album released on the Swedish HatHut label in 1975.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "Black Magic Man evinces a McPhee coming very much out of the ecstatic free jazz of the time (especially the late John Coltrane and Albert Ayler) but also wrestling with the implications of rock and the use of electronic instruments in jazz".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Black Magic Man" - 9:30
  2. "Song for Laureen" - 9:25
  3. "Hymn of the Dragon Kings" - 17:10

Personnel

References

  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 17, 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 Olewnick, Brian. Black Magic Man – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 17, 2015.