Straight up, Without Wings, The Musical Flight of Joe McPhee

[colinmce]

Just purchased the book, along with a new CD featuring the earliest McPhee recordings yet released. Really looking forward to cracking it.

https://corbettvsdempsey.com/books/straight-up-without-wings-the-musical-flight-of-joe-mcphee/

[clifford_thornton]

I will definitely be grabbing both.

[relyles]

I ordered this moning.

[mjazzg]

I'm getting this as soon as it hits these shores, I expect Oto will stock it

[JSngry]

I've never been totally all-in on McPhee for some reason, but I do want to read this and hear the accompanying CD.

Count me in, then!

[T.D.]

Has anyone read (or started) this?

I'm really interested, was about to order but saw that it's only 166 pages (per Forced Exposure; oddly the C vs D site doesn't give the # of pages)...If there are a lot of photos and footnotes, the text might be rather skimpy, in which case I'll hold off. Recently shelled out for The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which is disappointingly brief but significantly cheaper.

OTOH, the C vs. D combo book/CD offer might be the way to go.

Edited October 26, 2024 by T.D.