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Science Fiction (Ornette Coleman album)

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Released
  
1972

Artist
  
Ornette Coleman

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
37:03

Release date
  
1972

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 9, 10 & October 13, 1971

Science Fiction (1971)
  
Skies of America (1972)

Similar
  
Ornette Coleman albums, Jazz albums

Science Fiction is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1971 and released on the Columbia label.

Contents

Ornette coleman what reason could i give


Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 5 stars and stated "Science Fiction was his creative rebirth, a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy... Science Fiction is a meeting ground between Coleman's past and future; it combines the fire and edge of his Atlantic years with strong hints of the electrified, globally conscious experiments that were soon to come. And, it's overflowing with brilliance".

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman

  1. "What Reason Could I Give?" - 3:06
  2. "Civilization Day" - 6:04
  3. "Street Woman" - 4:50
  4. "Science Fiction" - 5:03
  5. "Rock the Clock" - 3:16
  6. "All My Life" - 3:56
  7. "Law Years" - 5:22
  8. "The Jungle Is a Skyscraper" - 5:26
  • Recorded at Columbia Studio E, NYC on September 9 (tracks 2, 3, 7 & 8), September 10 (track 4) and October 13 (tracks 1, 5 & 6), 1971

    • Personnel

  • Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
  • Don Cherry - pocket trumpet (tracks 2-4)
  • Bobby Bradford (tracks 4, 7 & 9), Carmine Fornarotto (tracks 1 & 6), Gerard Schwarz (tracks 1 & 6) - trumpet
  • Dewey Redman - tenor saxophone, musette (tracks 1 & 4-8)
  • Charlie Haden - bass
  • Billy Higgins (tracks 1-4 & 6), Ed Blackwell (tracks 1 & 4-8) - drums
  • David Henderson - recitation (track 4)
  • Asha Puthli - vocals (tracks 1 & 6)

    • Songs

    1What Reason Could I Give3:07
    2Civilization Day6:06
    3Street Woman4:51

    References

    Science Fiction (Ornette Coleman album) Wikipedia
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