Glass Bead Games
Glass Bead Games | ||||
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Studio album by Clifford Jordan | ||||
Released | 1974 | |||
Recorded | October 29, 1973 | |||
Studio | Minot Sound Studios, White Plains, NY | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 63:40 | |||
Label | Strata-East SES-19738 | |||
Producer | Clifford Jordan | |||
Clifford Jordan chronology | ||||
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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.[1] The album was re-released on CD as part of The Complete Clifford Jordan Strata-East Sessions by Mosaic Records in 2013.[2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The AllMusic 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."[3] 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."[4]
Track listing
All compositions by Clifford Jordan except where noted.
- "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 (Billy Higgins)
- "One for Amos" – 6:47 (Sam Jones)
Personnel
- Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone
- Stanley Cowell (tracks 1, 4–7, 10 & 11), Cedar Walton (tracks 2, 3, 8, 9 & 12) – piano
- Bill Lee (tracks 1, 4–7, 10 & 11), Sam Jones (tracks 2, 3, 8, 9 & 12) – bass
- Billy Higgins – drums, percussion
References
- v
- t
- e
leader or
co-leader
- Blowing in from Chicago (1957)
- Cliff Jordan (1957)
- Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957)
- Cliff Craft (1957)
- Spellbound (1960)
- A Story Tale (1961)
- Starting Time (1961)
- Bearcat (1962)
- These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)
- Soul Fountain (1966)
- In the World (1969)
- Glass Bead Games (1973)
- Half Note (1974)
- Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975)
- On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)
- On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)
- On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)
- Firm Roots (1975)
- The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)
- Remembering Me-Me (1976)
- Inward Fire (1977)
- The Adventurer (1978)
- Hello, Hank Jones (1978)
- Hyde Park After Dark (1981)
- Repetition (1984)
- Dr. Chicago (1984)
- Two Tenor Winner (1984)
- The Rotterdam Session (1985)
- Royal Ballads (1986)
- Live at Ethell's (1987)
- Masters from Different Worlds (1989)
- Four Play (1990)
- The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (1989–91)
- Play What You Feel (1990)
- Down Through the Years (1991)
Art
Farmer
- Mirage (1982)
- You Make Me Smile (1984)
- Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987)
- Blame It on My Youth (1988)
- Ph.D. (1989)
Charles
Mingus
- Cornell 1964 (March 1964)
- Town Hall Concert (April 1964)
- Astral Weeks (April 1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume I (April 1964)
- Mingus in Europe Volume II (April 1964)
- Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (June 1964)
Lee
Morgan
- Here's Lee Morgan (1960)
- Expoobident (1960)
- Take Twelve (1962)
Max
Roach
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- It's Time (1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
Cedar
Walton
- Spectrum (1968)
- The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)
- A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1/Naima (1973)
- A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973)
- The Pentagon (1976)
others
- Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
- Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957)
- Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972)
- Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973)
- Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
- Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
- To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
- Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
- Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985)
- Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986)
- J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961)
- Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965)
- Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986)
- Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988)
- Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
- Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
- Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
- Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976)
- The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957)
- Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958)
- Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970)
- What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981)
- Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)