The Sugar Hill Suite

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] 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.

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.