Clifford Jordan

2-LPs SET

180 GRAM VINYL

• LIMITED EDITION

• AUDIOPHILE RE-MASTERING

Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the ‘Strata East movement’, an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path between post-bop, 70’s avant-garde and spiritual jazz, with a groove. This is one of those few records where every element is perfect, and all players rise together to a new level of expression. Glass Bead Games is full of revelations at many levels. First, the decade of the 1970s did produce genuinely creative, "human" new music flowing from the jazz mainstream; second, Bill Lee was more than Spike's dad: he was a superlative bassist, a team player of the first order, a powerful catalyst who, if anything, deserves to be better known than his son; third, Billy Higgins was, as so many musicians insist, a once-in-a-lifetime drummer, the bellows inspiriting the collective flame.

PERSONNEL ON TRACKS A1, A4, B1,2, 3, C3, D1:

• CLIFFORD JORDAN, tenor sax
• BILLY HIGGGINS, drums
• STANLEY COWELL , piano
• BILL LEE, bass

PERSONNEL ON TRACKS A2, 3, C1,2, D2:

• CLIFFORD JORDAN, tenor sax
• BILLY HIGGGINS, drums
• CEDAR WALTON, piano
• SAM JONES, bass

Recorded October 29, 1973 at Minot Sound Studio, White Plains, NY.

SIDE A:

• 01. Powerful Paul Robeson
• 02. Glass Bead Games
• 03. Prayer To The People
• 04. Cal Massey

SIDE B:

• 01 John Coltrane
• 02. Eddie Harris
• 03. Biskit

SIDE C:

• 01. Shoulders
• 02. Bridgework
• 03. Maimou

SIDE D

• 01. Alias Buster Henry
• 02. One For Amos