Joe Mcphee / Joe Morris / Luther Gray at Beacon Yoga

“McPhee is highly fluent on all his instruments...and critics just as often have lauded McPhee for his gorgeous touch and tone. McPhee never gives less than his best...With McPhee, it's the heady mixture of outside and inside, of experimentation and tradition, and of technique and imagination, which gives his music its character. Clearly, McPhee can do it all—and with style, wit, passion and grace."
— Bill Tilland, BBC

"(Joe Morris is) of the most profound improvisors at work in the U.S.."
— Will Montgomery, The Wire

"Luther Gray is equally comfortable with jazz swing, free jazz, and punk rock, and he likes to mix them up....Gray is especially adept at drawing from multiple influences in a single gig and making it part of a unified whole." ...

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“McPhee is highly fluent on all his instruments...and critics just as often have lauded McPhee for his gorgeous touch and tone. McPhee never gives less than his best...With McPhee, it's the heady mixture of outside and inside, of experimentation and tradition, and of technique and imagination, which gives his music its character. Clearly, McPhee can do it all—and with style, wit, passion and grace."
— Bill Tilland, BBC

"(Joe Morris is) of the most profound improvisors at work in the U.S.."
— Will Montgomery, The Wire

"Luther Gray is equally comfortable with jazz swing, free jazz, and punk rock, and he likes to mix them up....Gray is especially adept at drawing from multiple influences in a single gig and making it part of a unified whole."
— Jon Garelick, Boston Globe

It is with tremendous sadness that OHIU announces that the previously announced concert featuring saxophonist Marco Eneidi has been changed due to his untimely passing earlier this week. Mr. Eneidi's longtime musical colleagues who were to perform with him that evening — Joe Morris on bass and Luther Gray on drums — will commemorate the late artist's life and music in performance with the Hudson Valley's own Joe McPhee on saxophones and trumpets.

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