Glass Bead Games

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]

Glass Bead Games
Studio album by
Clifford Jordan
Released1974
RecordedOctober 29, 1973
StudioMinot Sound Studios, White Plains, NY
GenreJazz
Length63:40
LabelStrata-East
SES-19738
ProducerClifford Jordan
Clifford Jordan chronology
In the World
(1969)		 Glass Bead Games
(1974)		 Half Note
(1974)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

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".[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.

  1. "Powerful Paul Robeson" - 5:42
  2. "Glass Bead Games" - 4:36
  3. "Prayer to the People" - 4:16
  4. "Cal Massey" (Stanley Cowell) - 2:42
  5. "John Coltrane" (Bill Lee, Clifton Lee) - 6:48
  6. "Eddie Harris" (Bill Lee) - 4:19
  7. "Biskit" (Bill Lee) - 5:28
  8. "Shoulders" (Cedar Walton) - 5:19
  9. "Bridgework" (Walton) - 3:47
  10. "Maimoun" (Cowell) - 5:40
  11. "Alias Buster Henry" - 8:16 (Billy Higgins)
  12. "One for Amos" - 6:47 (Sam Jones)

Personnel

References
  1. Clifford Jordan discography accessed April 9, 2014
  2. Mosaic Records website, accessed April 9, 2014
  3. Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed April 9, 2014
  4. Chell, S., Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games: Coltrane's Progeny, All About Jazz, August 16, 2007.
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