Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads
- Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads
Infobox Album |
Name = Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads
Type = Album
Artist = If
Released = 1975
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz rock Progressive rock
Length =
Label =
Producers = Jon Child, Cliff Davies,Lew Futterman
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Last album = "Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces" (1974)
This album = "Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads" (1975)
Next album = "" (1995)
"Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads", released in 1975, was the eighth and final studio album by British jazz-rock band If. It was followed by compilation CDs covering tracks from the first four LPs featuring the band's previous line-up.
The album reflects the band's more rock-influenced style, perfectly balanced with Dick Morrissey's harsher hard bop/bebop sax playing. The title track "Tea Break", referring to the hardships of being "on the road", is the punch line to an old musicians' joke and contains a tribute to Charlie Parker in the lyrics ("The Bird was the man to be heard" and "The music was the word") as well as in a swirling bebop tenor solo. The "Ballad of the Yessirom Kid", a tribute by the band to Dick Morrissey, finishes with a roaring bebop tenor solo. "Song for Alison" features the flute more than holding its own with a rock accompaniment. The song "Don Quixote" opens with an extensive acoustic Spanish guitar solo by Whitehorn.
Track listing
(LP version - the CD re-release varies the order slightly)
#"Merlin the Magic Man" (Davies)
#"I Had a Friend" (Davies))
#"Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads" (Whitehorn, Davies, Monaghan)
#"Ballad of the Yessirrom Kid" (Davies)
#"Raw Sewage" (Davies)
#"Song for Alison" (Morrissey)
#"Don Quixote's Masquerade" (Davies)
Line-up
*Cliff Davies - drums, synthesiser and vocals
*Gabriel Magno - keyboards
*Carlos Martinez - percussion
*Walt Monaghan - bass and vocals
*Dick Morrissey - saxophones and flute
*Geoff Whitehorn - electric and acoustic guitars
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