Proverbs and Songs

Proverbs and Songs
Live album by
Released1997
Recorded1 June 1996
GenreJazz
Length49:28
LabelECM
ECM 1639
ProducerDerek Drescher
John Surman chronology
A Biography of the Rev. Absalom Dawe
(1995)
Proverbs and Songs
(1997)
Coruscating
(1999)

Proverbs and Songs is a live album by the English saxophonist John Surman recorded at Salisbury Cathedral on June 1, 1996 with organist John Taylor and the 75-strong Salisbury Festival Chorus and released on ECM the following year, consisting a suite of choral settings of Old Testament texts.