As Serious As Your Life
As Serious as Your Life | ||||
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Studio album by Joe McPhee | ||||
Released | 1998 | |||
Recorded | May 27, 1996 at Mixtery Studio in Trumbull, Connecticut. | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 56:48 | |||
Label | HatHut hatOLOGY 514 | |||
Producer | Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger | |||
Joe McPhee chronology | ||||
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As Serious as Your Life is a solo album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1996 and first released on the Swedish HatHut label in 1998.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Allmusic reviewer Brian Olewnick states "As Serious as Your Life offers a fairly wide picture of the range of his talents and creative genius, and is arguably the finest of his solo recordings. Highly recommended".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated
- "The Death of Miles Davis" - 6:28
- "A Wish in One Hand" - 6:42
- "Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - 5:30
- "As Serious as Your Life 1" - 9:11
- "Haiku Study 1" - 4:43
- "Conlon in the Land of Ra" - 5:10
- "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:47
- "Tok" - 2:27
- "As Serious as Your Life 2" - 3:21
- "After the Rain" (John Coltrane) - 5:26
- "Party Lights" - 1:03
Personnel
References
- ↑ Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
- 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. As Serious as Your Life – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
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