NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Joe McPhee on 7 March 2019. Joe McPhee has been played over 80 times on NTS, first on 5 March 2014. Joe McPhee's music has been featured on 69 episodes.

Since his emergence on the creative jazz and new music scene in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Joe McPhee has been a deeply emotional composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a thoughtful conceptualist and theoretician. Born on November 3, 1939, in Miami, FL, McPhee first began playing the trumpet at age eight. McPhee continued on that instrument through high school and then in a…