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I still remember it vividly and how I was haunted by the matter-of-fact line: ‘you cut your head on the bedside table

“Space Voyage Mission” and “Worm Gear” parallel one another as sinuous jams that pulse with adamantine fervor

JOE MCPHEE - The Willisau Concert LP Surf Who gave me permission toJoe McPhee's first international release, Black Magic Man, was issued on the newly formed Hat Hut imprint in 1975. It was a watershed moment for the 35 year old musician. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, he was too far away from Manhattan to have participated extensively in the Loft Jazz happenings of the decade. European exposure, however, would give McPhee an alternative circuit, something of an escape route from the trappings of American cultural