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Always Pack Your Uniform on Top

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Released
  
June 5, 2000

Length
  
47:32

Release date
  
5 June 2000

Label
  
ECM Records

Recorded
  
April 1999

Artist
  
Producer
  
Genre
  
Jazz

Studio
  
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London England

Always Pack Your Uniform on Top(1999)
  
Similar
  
Steve Swallow albums, Jazz albums

Always Pack Your Uniform on Top is a live album by bassist Steve Swallow recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in December 1999 and released on the Xtra Watt label in 2000.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars and the review by David R. Adler states: "This is Swallow's third standards-derived quintet album, following in the footsteps of 1994's Real Book and 1996's Deconstructed... Although there's a brand new batch of tunes, Swallow applies the same approach, using familiar progressions as the basis for clever original music". In JazzTimes Bill Bennett wrote: "His gifts as a composer is equally evident in this set... Throughout, the ensemble work is outstanding, with Goodrick and Nussbaum in constant touch". On All About Jazz Glen Astarita noted: "Always Pack Your Uniform On Top is a class act - as the band most assuredly brought down the house at this time-honored jazz venue".

Track listing

All compositions by Steve Swallow.

  1. "Bend over Backward" - 11:29
  2. "Dog With a Bone" - 6:12
  3. "Misery Loves Company" - 7:48
  4. "Reinventing the Wheel" - 7:48
  5. "Feet First" - 7:26
  6. "La Nostalgie de la Boue" - 6:49

Personnel

  • Steve Swallow - bass guitar
  • Barry Ries - trumpet
  • Chris Potter - tenor saxophone
  • Mick Goodrick - guitar
  • Adam Nussbaum - drums
  • Songs

    1Bend Over Backward11:31
    2Dog With A Bone6:13
    3Misery Loves Company7:49

    References

    Always Pack Your Uniform on Top Wikipedia


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