Released 1974 | Length 63:40 Release date 1974 Label Harvest Song Records | |
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Recorded October 29, 1973Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, NY Similar Clifford Jordan albums, Jazz albums | ||
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Glass Bead Games is a double album by jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded in 1973 and released on the Strata-East label. The album was rereleased on CD as part of The Complete Clifford Jordan Strata-East Sessions in 2013.
Contents
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Reception
The Allmusic site's the review by Ken Dryden stated, "Clifford Jordan's two volumes of sessions under the title Glass Bead Games have long been heralded as some of the most important work of his career". Writing for All About Jazz, Samuel Chell enthused "To call the playing "remarkable" is to do it an injustice: rather, it's exemplary as a record of one instance of tapping into and then realizing the potential of the vast energy field that is human consciousness".
Track listing
All compositions by Clifford Jordan except as indicated
- "Powerful Paul Robeson" - 5:42
- "Glass Bead Games" - 4:36
- "Prayer to the People" - 4:16
- "Cal Massey" (Stanley Cowell) - 2:42
- "John Coltrane" (Bill Lee, Clifton Lee) - 6:48
- "Eddie Harris" (Lee) - 4:19
- "Biskit" (Lee) - 5:28
- "Shoulders" (Cedar Walton) - 5:19
- "Bridgework" (Walton) - 3:47
- "Maimoun" (Cowell) - 5:40
- "Alias Buster Henry" - 8:16
- "One for Amos" - 6:47
Personnel
Songs
1Powerful Paul Robeson5:47
2Glass Bead Games4:37
3Prayer to the People4:16