Common Threads (album)

Common Threads: Live at the Tractor Tavern, Seattle is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1995 and first released on the Deep Listening label.^[1]

Common Threads
Live album by Joe McPhee Quintet
Released	1996
Recorded	October 19, 1995
Venue	Tractor Tavern (Seattle)
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:18
Label	Deep Listening DL4
Producer	Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee chronology
McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995) Common Threads (1996) A Meeting in Chicago (1996)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Allmusic reviewer Thom Jurek states "the quintet creates a spacious yet wonderfully murky chamber music, utilizing timbre as its force for forward momentum. The three-string instruments are given free rein to cover or open spaces inside this mode and create intervals of their own for McPhee and S. Dempster. They create textures in space by employing timbral chromatics of timbre and tonal extension and contraction to achieve their aims".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

1. "Spirit Traveler (For Don Cherry)" – 47:30
2. "Michael's Cipher" – 4:04
3. "Red Enchantment (For Joe McPhee, Sr.)" – 7:39

Personnel

• Joe McPhee – pocket trumpet, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Stuart Dempster – trombone, didjeridu, little instruments
• Eyvind Kang – violin, erhu
• Loren Dempster – cello
• Michael Bisio – bass