Spihumonesty Explained

Spihumonesty
Type:	Album
Artist:	Muhal Richard Abrams
Cover:	Spihumonesty.jpg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	February 1978
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	29:32
Label:	Black Saint
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.^[1]

Reception

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".^[2] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said that "what should be a good band doesn't come up with much".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams

1. "Triverse" - 6:01
2. "Inneroutersight" - 4:51
3. "Unichange" - 8:44
4. "Spihumonesty" - 6:23

Personnel

• Muhal Richard Abrams

piano, synthesizer

• Roscoe Mitchell

alto saxophone, flute

• George Lewis

trombone, synthesizer, sousaphone

• Leonard Jones: bass
• Amina Claudine Myers

piano, organ, electric piano

• Youseff Yancy: theremin
• Jay Clayton

vocals

Notes and References

1. http://www.camoriginalsoundtracks.com/site/index.php?site=&path=cd&idcd=870&label=BLKS&alpha=S Black Saint Catelogue
2. Book: Cook, Richard. Richard Cook (journalist). Brian Morton. Brian Morton (Scottish writer). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 1992. 8th. The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 2006. Penguin. London. 978-0-141-02327-4. 5. registration.
3. Book: Swenson . J. . 1985 . The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . Random House/Rolling Stone . USA . 0-394-72643-X . 4.