Nation Time

This is one damn good album. The opening motif on Nation Time kind of reminds me of something Sonny Rollins would have come up with but alas, this is not Sonny, this is frickn' Joe McPhee. The man with so much soul his shoes are 10 inches thick. This was my first exposure to this guy and I thought it was going to be some straight forward jazz-funk but I was wrong. It has everything. Harp Bop, funk... read more