Flip and Spike
Studio album / Live album by
Joe Morris
Released1992
StudioThe Outpost, Stoughton, MA
(4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA
GenreJazz
Length68:55
LabelRiti
ProducerJoe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Sweatshop
(1990)		 Flip and Spike
(1992)		 Symbolic Gesture
(1994)

Flip and Spike is an album by American jazz guitarist Joe Morris released in 1992 on his own Riti label. It features a trio with Jerome Deupree, who was the original drummer in the rock band Morphine, and bassist Sebastian Steinberg.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Flip & Spike is the first of Morris' recordings that articulate his signature investigations of the guitar as an instrument of sonic density and dexterity, not just as a solo vehicle. As such, and as a work of striking emotional commitment, it is quite remarkable."[1]

In his book Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism, music writer Ben Watson claims about the album "Beneath the surface cool you sense a delirious funk. It creates a tension similar to the tumble-down-chaos-that-rocks in Beefheart."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Morris.

  1. "Flip & Spike" – 7:44
  2. "Itan" – 14:19
  3. "Julianna" – 2:42
  4. "Contemporarity" – 16:37
  5. "Mnemonic Device #1" – 0:52
  6. "Mnemonic Device #2" – 1:31
  7. "Mnemonic Device #3" – 1:13
  8. "Mnemonic Device #4" – 1:48
  9. "Mombaccus" – 11:31
  10. "Reflexes" – 10:38

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Joe Morris – Flip and Spike: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ Watson, Ben (2010). Honesty Is Explosive!: Selected Music Journalism. United States: Borgo Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 1434457834.
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