As Serious As Your Life

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As Serious as Your Life
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Studio album by
Released1998
RecordedMay 27, 1996
StudioMixtery in Trumbull, Connecticut
Genre Jazz
Length56:48
Label HatHut hatOLOGY 514
Producer Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
Joe McPhee chronology
A Meeting in Chicago
(1996)
As Serious as Your Life
(1998)
Legend Street One
(1996)

As Serious as Your Life is a solo album by the multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1996 and released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1998. [1] The title track is named for the 1977 book by Val Wilmer. [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic reviewer Brian Olewnick stated: "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." [3]

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

References

  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 22, 2015
  2. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 983. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. As Serious as Your Life – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 21, 2015.