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
Released	1992
Studio	The Outpost, Stoughton, MA (4, 10) Middle East, Cambridge, MA
Genre	Jazz
Length	68:55
Label	Riti
Producer	Joe Morris & Anne Marcotty Morris
Joe Morris chronology
Sweatshop (1990) Flip and Spike (1992) Symbolic Gesture (1994)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

• Joe Morris – guitar
• Sebastian Steinberg – acoustic bass
• Jerome Deupree – drums