The Sugar Hill Suite
The Sugar Hill Suite | ||||
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Studio album by Trio X | ||||
Released | 2004 | |||
Recorded | October 19, 2004 at The Spirit Room in Rossie, New York. | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | CIMP CIMP 320 | |||
Producer | Bob Rusch | |||
Joe McPhee chronology | ||||
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The Sugar Hill Suite is an album performed by multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee's Trio X recorded in 2004 and first released on the CIMP label.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
In JazzTimes Marc Masters wrote "The Sugar Hill Suite alternates between slow meditations and swinging vamps. The opening "For Agusta Savage" is mournful, as McPhee traces an Ornette Coleman-ish tenor sax pattern. Later, "Triple Play" and "Monk's Waltz" are catchy yet reflective, at times even serene. This affinity for combining the somber with the upbeat peaks on the stunning 16-minute title track".[3] On All About Jazz Kurt Gottschalk said "There's plenty of payoff in The Sugar Hill Suite, an oddly plaintive dedication to the spirit of Harlem. Far from the jazz-renaissance throwback that might be expected, it is luxuriously languid".[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen
- "For Agusta Savage" - 5:26
- "Triple Play" - 8:08
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 7:15
- "Drop Me Off in Harlem" (Duke Ellington) - 6:53
- "The Sugar Hill Suite" - 16:51
- "Little Sunflower" - 11:32
- "Monk's Waltz" - 4:43
- "Goin' Home" - 6:55
Personnel
- Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone
- Dominic Duval - bass
- Jay Rosen - drums
References
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- Pieces of Light (1974)
- Old Eyes (1980)
- Topology (1981)
- Oleo (1982)
- Visitation (1985)
- Linear B (1990)
- Impressions of Jimmy Giuffre (1992)
- Sweet Freedom - Now What? (1995)
- A Meeting in Chicago (1996)
- As Serious As Your Life (1996)
- Legend Street One (1996)
- Legend Street Two (1996)
- Inside Out (1996)
- Finger Wrigglers (1996)
- The Brass City (1997)
- Chicago Tenor Duets (1998)
- Zebulon (1998)
- In the Spirit (1999)
- No Greater Love (1999)
- Grand Marquis (1999)
- Tales Out of Time (2002)
- Underground Railroad (1969)
- Nation Time (1971)
- Black Magic Man (1971)
- At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 (1971)
- Trinity (1972)
- Rotation (1976)
- The Willisau Concert (1976)
- Tenor (1977)
- Graphics (1977)
- Variations on a Blue Line (1977)
- Glasses (1977)
- MFG in Minnesota (1978)
- Élan • Impulse (1991)
- McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995)
- Common Threads (1995)
- Specific Gravity (1997)
- The Dream Book (1998)
- Emancipation Proclamation: A Real Statement of Freedom (1999)
- Manhattan Tango (2000)
- Port of Saints (2000)
- Voices & Dreams (2000)
- Mister Peabody Goes to Baltimore (2000)
- Remembrance (2001)
- In Finland (2004)
- Guts (2007)
- What/If/They Both Could Fly (2012)
- Rapture (1999)
- The Watermelon Suite (1999)
- On Tour (2001)
- In Black and White (2002)
- Journey (2003)
- The Sugar Hill Suite (2004)
- Moods: Playing with the Elements (2005)
- Roulette at Location One (2005)
- Air: Above and Beyond (2006)