A Meeting in Chicago

A Meeting in Chicago
Studio album by
Released1997
RecordedFebruary 14, 1996
StudioÜberstudio, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length55:12
LabelEighth Day Music, Okka Disk
ProducerMcPhee/Vandermark/Kessler
Ken Vandermark chronology
Blow Horn
(1997)
A Meeting in Chicago
(1997)
Real Time
(1997)
Joe McPhee chronology
Common Threads
(1996)
A Meeting in Chicago
(1996)
As Serious As Your Life
(1996)
reissue cover

A Meeting in Chicago is an album by trumpeter/saxophonist Joe McPhee, reedist Ken Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler, which was released in 1997 on Eighth Day Music and reissued the following year with new artwork by Okka Disk. The album documents trio, duo and solo improvisations recorded all in a single take with no rehearsal, before playing their first concert later that night at The Empty Bottle. Vandermark cites McPhee’s solo recording Tenor as a major influence.