Black Magic Man is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee recorded on December 12, 1970 (at the same concerts chronicled on his previous album, Nation Time). This was the very first release on the Swiss jazz label HatHut in 1975. It was later included (in heavily extended form) on the "Nation Time" 4-CD boxed set issued by the music label of Chicago arts collective "Corbett vs. Dempsey" in 2013.

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The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "Black Magic Man evinces a McPhee coming very much out of the ecstatic free jazz of the time (especially the late John Coltrane and Albert Ayler) but also wrestling with the implications of rock and the use of electronic instruments in jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee

  1. "Black Magic Man" - 9:30
  2. "Song for Laureen" - 9:25
  3. "Hymn of the Dragon Kings" - 17:10

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