Couple in Spirit is an album by the English jazz pianist Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett

Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...

 and singer Julie Tippetts

Julie Driscoll

Julie Tippetts is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger & The Trinity...

. It was released on the EG record label in 1987.

The Almmusic review by Thom Jurek awards the album with 4.5 stars and states: "The pairing of Keith and Julie Tippett on a recording always causes anticipation; the duo's potential for provocative surprise is seemingly endless. But even so, nothing could have prepared listeners for Couple in Spirit. Far from the hallmarks of jazz or the harsher extremes of free improvisation, CIS is in a sense an eight-part suite that begins with intention, moves through incantation and journey, and finally returns as transformation."

Track listing

1. "Daybreak" – 3:13
2. "Morning Psalm" – 2:18
3. "Brimstone Spring Lullaby" – 3:47
4. "Evening Psalm" – 3:32
5. "Marching (We Shall Remember Them)" – 6:04
6. "The Choir and the Sunset Improvisers" – 7:24
7. "The Key at Dusk" – 6:25
8. "Grey Mist With Yellow Waterfall Entwines Evening Turquoise" – 4:25

Tracks 4 & 8 composed by Keith Tippett; all other tracks by Keith and Julie Tippett

Personnel

• Keith Tippett
  Keith Tippett
  Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer.Tippett, the son of a local police officer, went to Greenway Boys Secondary Modern school in Southmead, Bristol. He formed his first jazz band called The KT7 whilst still at school and they performed numbers popular at the time by The Temperance...
  
   - piano, harmonium, harpsichord, voices, bells, bottle
• Julie Tippetts
  Julie Driscoll
  Julie Tippetts is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger & The Trinity...
  
  - voices, recorder, zither, bottle, shaker