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A Very Still Life

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Released
  
May 27, 1997

Release date
  
27 May 1997

Label
  
Lucid Subjazz

Genres
  
Jazz, Acid jazz

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Artist
  
Jack Kevorkian and the Morpheus Quintet

A Very Still Life is the first and only album by Jack Kevorkian, released on the Lucid Subjazz label, in which he plays the flute. It was released on May 27, 1997. The 5000-unit limited release was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly online as "weird" but "good natured". The CD initially suffered from slow sales. As of 1997, 1400 units had been sold. However, after Kevorkian's death in 2011, the CD became considered a collectors item and rocketed in value, fetching around $400 on Amazon.com. Kevorkian wrote all the songs but one; the album was reviewed in jazzreview.com as "very much grooviness" except for one tune, with "stuff in between that's worthy of multiple spins.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Whispering, Came Violets
  2. Summertooth
  3. Brotherhood Of
  4. Very Still Life
  5. August to Amber
  6. Fuguetta Caffeine
  7. Interlude: Unfinished Minuet
  8. In Strange Loops
  9. Back at Abby's
  10. Interlude: Gavat
  11. Geoff's Mood
  12. Une Lettre de Jean

Songs

1Whispering - Came Violets3:47
2Summertooth4:32
3Brotherhood Of3:58

References

A Very Still Life Wikipedia