{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Rural Still Life | type = Album | artist = [[Tom Scott (saxophonist)|Tom Scott]] | cover = Rural Still Life.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = 1968 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz fusion]]<ref name="Allmusic"/> | length = 36:41 | label = [[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]] | producer = Tom Scott | chronology = [[Tom Scott (saxophonist)|Tom Scott]] | prev_title = [[The Honeysuckle Breeze]] | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = Hair to Jazz | next_year = 1970 }}
'''''Rural Still Life''''' is the second album by American jazz saxophonist [[Tom Scott (saxophonist)|Tom Scott]] featuring performances recorded in 1968 for the [[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]] label.<ref name="Impulse! Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9100-series/#as-9171 Impulse! Records discography] accessed April 13, 2011</ref>
==Reception== Down Beat, the most revered Jazz music magazine, gave the album four out of five stars in their March 1969 issue. Reviewer Alan Heineman found the album exciting and that "when it works, it really works."<ref>''Down Beat'', Vol.36 No.6, Charles Suber publishing, March 20, 1969</ref> The [[Allmusic]] review by Jim Todd awarded the album 1½ stars stating "This 1968 LP from the early days of jazz fusion lacks the seamless merging of styles that would mark the commercial success of Tom Scott's later career. Instead, the 19-year-old reed player and the members of his quartet careen all over the style map{{snd}} with varying degrees of success... At the time of this recording, Scott was already a fixture of the Los Angeles studio scene. As he makes clear on ''Rural Still Life'', jazz was{{snd}} and would remain{{snd}} a side interest only".<ref name="Allmusic">Todd, J. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/rural-still-life-r147154 Allmusic Review] accessed April 13, 2011</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]'' | rev1Score = {{rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|1|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 176 }}</ref> }}
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Tom Scott except as indicated'' # "Rural Still Life #26" (Mike Lang) - 3:27 # "Song #1" - 6:34 # "Freak In" - 7:08 # "With Respect to John Coltrane" - 8:03 # "Just Messin' Around" (Mike Barone) - 5:21 # "[[Body and Soul (1930 song)|Body and Soul]]" ([[Edward Heyman]], [[Robert Sour]], [[Frank Eyton]], [[Johnny Green]]) - 6:08 :*Recorded in Los Angeles, California in 1968
==Personnel== *[[Tom Scott (saxophonist)|Tom Scott]] - [[tenor saxophone]], [[soprano saxophone]], multivider *[[Michael Lang (musician)|Michael Lang]] - [[piano]], [[harpsichord]] *[[Chuck Domanico]] - [[Double bass|bass]] *[[John Guerin]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Tom Scott (saxophonist)}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Impulse! Records albums]] [[Category:Tom Scott (saxophonist) albums]] [[Category:1968 albums]]