Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - 25.7.12 (2016)

Joe McPhee and Chris Corsano have provided some of the absolute stand-out moments at OTO, and this has to be one of the best of them. Playing together for one night only back in August of 2012, the dream duo kick out white hot energy and offer up heart breaking balladry. Corsano's deft hands and a punk rock attitude create haunting textures and huge shadows that allow McPhee to blow lines that make you bleary eyed. When his voice comes through his pocket trumpet it seems to call out from another world. "But when the money's gone", he calls, and it's a sing a long, it's a crooners song - it's free jazz at it's most lively.