Flip and Spike

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.

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)

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. 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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