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As Serious As Your Life

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Released
  
1998

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Label
  
hatOLOGY

Length
  
56:48

Release date
  
1998

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
May 27, 1996 at Mixtery Studio in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Producer
  
Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger

As Serious as Your Life (1996)
  
Legend Street One (1996)

Similar
  
The Willisau Concert, Black Magic Man, Underground Railroad, Nation Time, Trinity

As Serious as Your Life is a solo album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1996 and first released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1998.

Contents

Reception

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".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated

  1. "The Death of Miles Davis" - 6:28
  2. "A Wish in One Hand" - 6:42
  3. "Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - 5:30
  4. "As Serious as Your Life 1" - 9:11
  5. "Haiku Study 1" - 4:43
  6. "Conlon in the Land of Ra" - 5:10
  7. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:47
  8. "Tok" - 2:27
  9. "As Serious as Your Life 2" - 3:21
  10. "After the Rain" (John Coltrane) - 5:26
  11. "Party Lights" - 1:03

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - reeds, pocket cornet, piano, electronics

    • Songs

    1The Death of Miles Davis6:29
    2A Wish in One Hand6:42
    3Ain't Nothin' but the Blues5:30

    References

    As Serious As Your Life Wikipedia
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