Spihumonesty

{{Infobox album

| name = Spihumonesty

| type = Album

| artist = Muhal Richard Abrams

| cover = Spihumonesty.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1979

| recorded = February 1978

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 29:32

| label = Black Saint

| producer =

| chronology = Muhal Richard Abrams

| prev_title = Spiral Live at Montreux 1978

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Mama and Daddy

| next_year = 1980

}}

Spihumonesty is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams, released on the Italian Black Saint label in 1979. It features performances by Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Youseff Yancy, Leonard Jones, and Jay Clayton.[http://www.camoriginalsoundtracks.com/site/index.php?site=&path=cd&idcd=870&label=BLKS&alpha=S Black Saint Catelogue] accessed April 1, 2009

Reception

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r134219 AllMusic Review]

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev3Score = {{rating|2|5}}}}

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "This drummerless band moves through the charts like information through a printed circuit, and there is an impressive simultaneity to some of the cues which suggests that at least that some of this music was predetermined and meticulously rehearsed".{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|authorlink2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 8th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-141-02327-4|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/5 5]|url-access = registration|url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/5}} The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said that "what should be a good band doesn't come up with much".{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 4

}}