Trio X at Chapel of Our Lady Restoration

"One of the most consistently impressive and adventurous composer/ instrumentalists in the music."
-- The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

"Probably the best saxophone/ cornet instrumentalist in the history of jazz."
-- Cadence Magazine

"What was noticeable above all wasn't just the facility and speed of McPhee's playing but the quality of sound itself... a brave set... Mr. McPhee is intellectual about his music, but (he spills) over into surprisingly emotional territory...not unlike what Rahsaan Roland Kirk did with folk songs and Jimi Hendrix did with 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'"...

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"One of the most consistently impressive and adventurous composer/ instrumentalists in the music."
-- The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD

"Probably the best saxophone/ cornet instrumentalist in the history of jazz."
-- Cadence Magazine

"What was noticeable above all wasn't just the facility and speed of McPhee's playing but the quality of sound itself... a brave set... Mr. McPhee is intellectual about his music, but (he spills) over into surprisingly emotional territory...not unlike what Rahsaan Roland Kirk did with folk songs and Jimi Hendrix did with 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'"
-- Ben Ratliff, live concert review in The New York Times

"McPhee is highly fluent on all his instruments...and critics just as often have lauded McPhee for his gorgeous touch and tone. McPhee never gives less than his best...With McPhee, it's the heady mixture of outside and inside, of experimentation and tradition, and of technique and imagination, which gives his music its character. Clearly, McPhee can do it all ~ and with style, wit, passion and grace."
-- Bill Tilland, British Broadcasting Corporation, 2/O2

"A player with an ear for texture and interplay as well as for fire and passion, [he controls] the full range of the horn, from a whisper to a scream...One of the last saxophonists working in the great tradition of vocalized tonality & instrumental storytelling."
-- Yale Professor John Szwed

"Joe McPhee might not turn up alongside John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and Ornette Coleman on the average jazz fan's top~ten list, but then he's not your average player...Diehards know that this man, who has recorded over 6O discs in the past 35 years, is the most consistently mind~bending lyrical firebrand living and breathing in the genre today. Wish you could see Coltrane, Sanders or Coleman in their prime? Come witness the brilliant spirit of Joe McPhee and his Trio X."
-- Matt Sonzala, Houston Press, 6/27/O2

Among serious jazz fans, Joe McPhee is recognized as a major force in truly creative music -- among his fellow residents of the Hudson Valley, he is unquestionably far less well known. Hoping to ameliorate this situation, it is a great honor and thrill to be able to present the great Mr. McPhee and one his he finest ensembles, Trio X, to Hudson Valley audiences in the beautiful venue and Hudson River setting of the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, on the banks of the Hudson near the Metro-North train station at 45 Market Street in Cold Spring. The concert will take place Saturday September 18 at 8 PM. Tickets will be $10 at the door for general admission, and $8 for students and seniors.

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