A Very Still Life Explained

A Very Still Life
Type:Studio album
Artist:Jack Kevorkian
Cover:Averystilllife.jpg
Released:May 27, 1997
Genre:Jazz
Label:Lucid Subjazz

A Very Still Life is the first and only album by Jack Kevorkian, released on the Lucid Subjazz label, in which he plays the flute. It was released on May 27, 1997. The 5000-unit limited release was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly online as "weird" but "good natured".[1] The CD initially suffered from slow sales. As of 1997, 1400 units had been sold.[1] Kevorkian wrote all the songs but one; the album was reviewed in jazzreview.com as "very much grooviness" except for one tune, with "stuff in between that's worthy of multiple spins."[2]

Track listing

  1. Whispering, Came Violets
  2. Summertooth
  3. Brotherhood Of
  4. Very Still Life
  5. August to Amber
  6. Fuguetta Caffeine
  7. Interlude: Unfinished Minuet
  8. In Strange Loops
  9. Back at Abby's
  10. Interlude: Gavat
  11. Geoff's Mood
  12. Une Lettre de Jean

Notes and References

  1. Essex, Andrew (December 26, 1997). "Death Mettle" . ew.com; Entertainment Weekly.
  2. Web site: Ochej. Josephine. Featured Artist: Jack Kevorkian and Morpheus Quintet. JazzReview.com. 5 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20041121143707/http://www.jazzreview.com/cdreviewprint.cfm?ID=1681. 21 November 2004.