As Serious As Your Life

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As Serious as Your Life
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Studio album by
Joe McPhee
Released1998
RecordedMay 27, 1996
StudioMixtery in Trumbull, Connecticut
GenreJazz
Length56:48
LabelHatHut hatOLOGY 514
ProducerPia & 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 multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1996 and first released on the Swiss HatHut label in 1998.[1] The title track is named for the book by Val Wilmer.[2]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings4/4 stars[2]

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".[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. ^ Jump up to: a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 983. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Olewnick, Brian. As Serious as Your Life – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
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