As Serious As Your Life
{{Short description|1998 solo album by Joe McPhee}}
{{Infobox album
| name = As Serious as Your Life
| type = Studio
| artist = Joe McPhee
| cover = As Serious As Your Life.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded = May 27, 1996
| venue =
| studio = Mixtery in Trumbull, Connecticut
| genre = Jazz
| length = 56:48
| label = HatHut hatOLOGY 514
| producer = Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
| chronology = Joe McPhee
| prev_title = A Meeting in Chicago
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Legend Street One
| next_year = 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.[http://joemcphee.com/as-serious-as-your-life.html Joe McPhee discography] accessed April 22, 2015 The title track is named for the 1977 book by Val Wilmer.
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=983}}
}}
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."{{AllMusic|first=Brian |last=Olewnick |class=album |id=mw0001103203 |title=As Serious as Your Life – Review |accessdate=April 21, 2015}}
Track listing
All compositions by Joe McPhee except as indicated
- "The Death of Miles Davis" - 6:28
- "A Wish in One Hand" - 6:42
- "Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" - 5:30
- "As Serious as Your Life 1" - 9:11
- "Haiku Study 1" - 4:43
- "Conlon in the Land of Ra" - 5:10
- "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:47
- "Tok" - 2:27
- "As Serious as Your Life 2" - 3:21
- "After the Rain" (John Coltrane) - 5:26
- "Party Lights" - 1:03
Personnel
References
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