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As Serious as Your Life
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Joe McPhee
Cover:	As Serious As Your Life.jpg
Released:	1998
Recorded:	May 27, 1996
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.^[1] The title track is named for the 1977 book by Val Wilmer.

Reception

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."

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

• Joe McPhee - reeds, pocket cornet, piano, electronics

Notes and References

1. http://joemcphee.com/as-serious-as-your-life.html Joe McPhee discography