Joe McPhee - Underground Railroad (Live at Holy Cross Monastery)

This is an event worth celebrating. Since 1970, trumpeter and saxophonist Joe Mcphee's first album, Underground Railroad, has been virtually impossible to find or even hear. Issued in an edition of 500 copies on Craig Johnson's CJR label -- it was recorded next to Johnson's house at the Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York -- it sold out and was never reprinted until now. As part of Atavistic's unprecedented and truly essential Unheard Music Series, it is packaged as a double CD with a gig from earlier in 1969 at the very same place: Holy Cross Monastery. Read More