Pace Yourself

Pace Yourself
Studio album by Tim Berne's Caos Totale
Released	1991
Recorded	November 1990
Studio	Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	70:12
Label	JMT JMT 824 442
Producer	Stefan F. Winter & Caos Totale
Tim Berne chronology
Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales (1990) Pace Yourself (1991) I Can't Put My Finger on It (1991)

Pace Yourself is an album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Caos Totale, recorded in 1990 and released on the JMT label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

The AllMusic review by Brian Olewnick states, "Pace Yourself finds Berne's Caos Totale sextet exploring his rich, multi-layered compositions in depth and at length. Berne's pieces, especially his longer, episodic ones, tend to take unexpected twists and turns; you'll find very little of the traditional "head-solos-head" song structure here. Though most of his themes have a blues base, they emerge and disappear in conformity with their own logic, not a pre-existing formula". ^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Tim Berne

1. "Bass Voodoo" - 9:57
2. "The Noose" - 7:36
3. "The Usual" - 8:18
4. "Sam's Dilemma" - 13:36
5. "The Legend of P-1" - 26:24
6. "Luna" - 4:31

Personnel

• Tim Berne - alto saxophone
• Herb Robertson - trumpet, cornet, flutes, flugelhorn, balloon, whistles, vocals
• Steve Swell - trombone
• Marc Ducret - electric guitar, fretless electric guitar
• Mark Dresser - bass, bungy giffus
• Bobby Previte - drums, music manuscript

References

1. Tim Berne discography, accessed October 9, 2014
2. Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed October 9, 2014
3. Olewnick, B., Allmusic Review accessed October 9, 2014
4. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 120. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.