GIGSPACE
Ottawa's Premiere Intimate Concert Venue
7:00 PM Jesse Stewart-Joe McPhee-Nicolas Caloia
Sat, Apr 27
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"... McPhee's magical take on avant-garde sax remains one of the wonders of the scene. He still has one of the most beautiful tones on the planet, even when he’s reaching for jazz’s outer limits." Time Out New York
TIME & LOCATION
Apr 27, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
GigSpace, 953 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, ON, Canada
ABOUT
Thank you Margaret Laing for co-sponsoring this concert!
A legend in the fields of jazz and improvised music Joe McPhee (saxophones, pocket trumpet) will perform with Nicolas Caloia (bass), and Jesse Stewart (drums and percussion).
Joe McPhee is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, conceptualist and theoretician. He began playing the trumpet at age eight, taught by his father, himself a trumpet player. He continued on that instrument through his formative school years and later in a U.S. Army band stationed in Germany, at which time he was introduced to performing traditional jazz. Clifford Thornton’s Freedom and Unity, released in 1969 on the Third World label, is the first recording on which he appears as a side man. In 1968, inspired by the music of Albert Ayler, he took up the saxophone and began an active involvement in both acoustic and electronic music. His first recordings as leader appeared on the C…
TICKETS
Jesse Stewart 7:00 PM
**Cookies must be enabled to use the purchase ticket feature** Doors open at 6:30 PM, concert starts 7:00 PM, GigSpace holds 46 seats, general seating, cash bar, cash sales for Artist's merchandise.
$25.00
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