Underground Railroad (album)

Underground Railroad is a live album by saxophonist and composer Joe McPhee recorded in 1969 at the Holy Cross Monastery and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2001 with a bonus concert from the same venue.

Tonal variants are evoked in order to up the emotional content of the music, which is already so loaded it's a miracle it doesn't fall apart...

This set is one of the most essential recordings of late-'60s free jazz, and anybody remotely interested in the period needs to hear it".

[2] On All About Jazz, Robert Spencer noted "this set shows conclusively that McPhee’s massive talent was at his disposal from the onset of his earliest efforts.

Any fan of ecstatic free jazz shouldn’t pass this one up!".