Pieces of Light

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Pieces of Light
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Studio album by
Joe McPhee and John Snyder
Released1974
RecordedApril 1974 at CjR Studio in West Park, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length46:47
Label CjR CjR 4
Atavistic ALP256CD
Joe McPhee chronology
Trinity
(1972)
Pieces of Light
(1974)
The Willisau Concert
(1976)

Pieces of Light is an album by mult-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with John Snyder on synthesizer recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005. [1]

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Reception

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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek stated "The result is a meandering six-part meditation on how best to combine acoustically and electrically driven sounds... most of Pieces of Light is merely a curiosity". [2] On All About Jazz writer Kurt Gottschalk noted "McPhee at times plays marvelously jazzy in alien vistas and if Snyder's synthesizer sounds a bit dated at times it never comes off as quaint". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe McPhee and John Snyder

  1. "Prologue/Twelve" - 9:13
  2. "Shadow Sculptures" - 3:38
  3. "Heros Sont Fatigues" - 7:41
  4. "Red Giant" - 3:08
  5. "Windows in Dreams/Colors in Crystal" - 23:07

Personnel

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References

  1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 20, 2015
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Pieces of Light – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 984. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Gottschalk, K., All About Jazz Review, October 7, 2006