How Many Clouds Can You See?

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
All About Jazz	[2]

Allmusic awards the album 4 and a half stars and its review by Jason Ankeny states: "John Surman's second album remains his most impressive, anticipating the sound and scope of the European free jazz movement that would blossom in the decade to come".[1] John Kelman in his All About Jazz review states: "While woodwind multi-instrumentalist John Surman's eponymous debut was a strange mixture of everything from free improvisation to calypso, his second date, 1970's How Many Clouds Can You See?, is a much more focused affair. Surman clearly references one of his roots, John Coltrane, albeit on an instrument that the legendary saxophonist never played.[2]

All compositions by John Surman except where noted.

Musicians

• Mike Osborne – alto saxophone
• John Warren – baritone saxophone, flute
• John Surman – baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
• Barre Phillips, Harry Miller – bass
• Alan Jackson, Tony Oxley – drums
• Alan Skidmore – tenor saxophone, flute
• Chris Pyne, Malcolm Griffiths – trombone
• Dave Holdsworth – trumpet
• Harold Beckett – trumpet, flugelhorn
• John Taylor – piano
• George Smith – tuba

Other credits

• Bill Price, Dave Grinsted – engineer
• Miles Kington – liner notes
• David Osborne – photography