Broken Shadows | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Recorded | September 9, 1971 and September 7 & 8, 1972 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 50:37 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Jim Fishel | |||
Ornette Coleman chronology | ||||
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Broken Shadows is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1971, at the same sessions that produced Science Fiction , but not released on the Columbia label until 1982. [1]
The contents of the album were included in the 2000 compilation The Complete Science Fiction Sessions . [2]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Cut prior to Coleman's formation of Prime Time, these performances serve as an unintentional retrospective of his career up to that point". [3]
Robert Palmer of The New York Times called Broken Shadows "a wonderful album," and stated that, in relation to Science Fiction, it is "quite possibly a better album... and certainly in that league." Palmer praised "Good Girl Blues," describing it as "an extravagantly imaginative updating of the Southwestern jump blues that Mr. Coleman played as a young man," and commenting: "The tune is weird, perhaps a little disorienting. Listening to it is something like finding yourself between stations on the radio, with the blues in one ear and an atonal woodwind quintet in the other." [5]
Writing for The Washington Post , Geoffrey Himes commented: "The... release finds Coleman at a midpoint between his turbulent free jazz pioneering and just as turbulent harmolodic work. In 1972, he had slowed down enough to reveal his gift for pensive melodies and populist blues." [6]