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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. What Reason Could I Give
2. Civilization Day
3. Street Woman
4. Science Fiction
5. Rock the Clock
6. All My Life
7. Law Years
8. Jungle Is a Skyscraper, The
9. School Work
10. Country Town Blues
11. Street Woman - (previously unreleased, alternate take, bonus track)
12. Civilization Day - (alternate mix, previously unreleased, bonus track)
DISC 2:
1. Happy House
2. Elizabeth
3. Written Word - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
4. Broken Shadows
5. Rubber Gloves
6. Good Girl Blues
7. Is It Forever
Album Notes
THE COMPLETE SCIENCE FICTION SESSIONS contains SCIENCE FICTION (1971) and BROKEN SHADOWS (1971).
Personnel includes: Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone, trumpet, violin); Asha Puthli, Webster Armstrong (vocals); David Henderson (spoken vocals); Dewey Redman (tenor saxophone, musette); Bobby Bradford, Carmine Fornarotto, Gerard Schwarz (trumpet); Don Cherry (pocket trumpet); Cedar Walton (piano); Jim Hall (guitar); Charlie Haden (bass); Billy Higgins (drums, timpani); Ed Blackwell (drums).
Producer: James Jordan.
Compilation producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at Columbia Studio C and Columbia Studio E, New York, New York between September 9, 1971 and September 8, 1972. Includes liner notes by Bob Palmer, Michael Cuscuna and Jame Isaacs.
Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).
Saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman was one of the late '50s' pivotal jazz figures. With an approach to jazz that avoided soloing based upon previously established chord patterns, he opened the form up to a whole new world of possibilities. Coleman has also made impressions beyond jazz: Leonard Bernstein was an early champion of his music, and Lou Reed cites him as a major influence.
With the exception of the symphonic SKIES OF AMERICA, THE COMPLETE SCIENCE FICTION SESSIONS compiles virtually all Coleman's Columbia output, which was recorded in 1971 and originally issued on two long-unavailable albums, SCIENCE FICTION (1972) and BROKEN SHADOWS (1982). In some ways, this set serves as something of a retrospective, as it features many of the musicians who had played with him in the '50s and '60s. With their dirge-like themes and surging yet unpredictable rhythms, these sessions evoke such Coleman classics as "Lonely Woman" and "Ramblin'.'" The collection also points to Coleman's later work--some of these themes, such as "Happy House" and "School Work," would be reprised in his electric Prime Time bands. As a bonus, three previously unreleased tracks (featuring Cedar Walton and Jim Hall!) are included.
Industry Reviews
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...Stands as a link between the saxophonist's ground-breaking quartet and his electric Prime Time band....Coleman remains strong, showing that in the early '70s nothing could hold him down...
Down Beat (10/01/2000)
9 out of 10 - ...The mutational starting point....[His] fervent, blues-infused alto blends with the dense expressionism of the ensemble....Even half-baked funk-soul experiments...forecast more polymorphous shapes to come...
Spin (11/01/2000)
...[He] brought several excellent compositions to [this] session. He blended his early buoyancy and the edge of his late-period Atlantic releases in briskly paced pieces....an enduring recording.
The Wire (06/01/2000)
4 out of 5 - ...A brilliant example of [his] harmolodics in action....a powerful testament to world-class improvisers in tune with his vision...
Alternative Press (11/01/2000)
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