| Breath of Life | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | World Saxophone Quartet |
| Cover: | Breath of Life.jpg |
| Released: | 1994 |
| Recorded: | April & September 1992 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 61:32 |
| Label: | Elektra/Nonesuch |
| Producer: | Hamiett Bluiett |
| Prev Title: | Moving Right Along |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Four Now |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Breath of Life is an album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet. It was recorded in 1992 and released on the Elektra/Nonesuch label in 1994 and features performances by Hamiet Bluiett, Arthur Blythe, Oliver Lake and David Murray with Fontella Bass and a rhythm section.
The AllMusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4 stars, and stated, "Going a step further from the previous year's experiment with African drums on Metamorphosis, Breath of Life continues to find the sax quartet stretching the boundaries associated with its acappella approach of the past".[1]
The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "Breath of Life has to be accounted an off-day in the WSQ's impressive progress. The playing is immaculate as ever, but there is a strange lack of focus in the writing, a bland equalization of voices, almost as if someone had called a truce on competing visions."