The Sugar Hill Suite

The Sugar Hill Suite
Studio album by
Trio X
Released2004
RecordedOctober 19, 2004 at The Spirit Room in Rossie, New York.
GenreJazz
LabelCIMP CIMP 320
ProducerBob Rusch
Joe McPhee chronology
In Finland
(2004) 		The Sugar Hill Suite
(2004) 		Moods: Playing with the Elements
(2005)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

  1. "For Agusta Savage" - 5:26
  2. "Triple Play" - 8:08
  3. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 7:15
  4. "Drop Me Off in Harlem" (Duke Ellington) - 6:53
  5. "The Sugar Hill Suite" - 16:51
  6. "Little Sunflower" - 11:32
  7. "Monk's Waltz" - 4:43
  8. "Goin' Home" - 6:55

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 30, 2015
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 984. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Masters, M., Jazztimes Review, January/February 2006
  4. ^ Gottschalk, K., All About Jazz Review, May 1, 2005