<img src="www.cdemusic.org"align="left" hspace="3"> Since first emerging in the late '60s, Joe McPhee has been heralded as one of jazz's most talented multi-instrumentalists and greatest improvisers. He has also become one of its most emotional and daring composers. McPhee first encountered jazz while serving in Germany with the U.S. Army. Originally a trumpet player, he took up the saxophone shortly after he began playing professionally, and has since gone on to investigate a wide range of instruments, including the pocket cornet, clarinet, flugelhorn, piano, and even electronics. It's this spirit of voracious creative inquiry that has marked all of his work to date.