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Released
  
1974

Artist
  
Joe McPhee

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
46:47

Release date
  
1974

Recorded
  
April 1974 at CjR Studio in West Park, NYC

Label
  
CjR CjR 4Atavistic ALP256CD

Pieces of Light(1974)
  
The Willisau Concert(1976)

Similar
  
Joe McPhee albums, Jazz albums

Pieces of Light is an album by mult-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with John Snyder on synthesizer recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "The result is a meandering six-part meditation on how best to combine acoustically and electrically driven sounds... most of Pieces of Light is merely a curiosity". On All About Jazz writer Kurt Gottschalk noted "McPhee at times plays marvelously jazzy in alien vistas and if Snyder's synthesizer sounds a bit dated at times it never comes off as quaint".

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee and John Snyder

  1. "Prologue/Twelve" - 9:13
  2. "Shadow Sculptures" - 3:38
  3. "Heros Sont Fatigues" - 7:41
  4. "Red Giant" - 3:08
  5. "Windows in Dreams/Colors in Crystal" - 23:07

Personnel

  • Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, E-Flat alto, modified nagoya harp, chimes, voice
  • John Snyder - synthesizers

    • References

    Pieces of Light Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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