Pieces of Light

Pieces of Light
Studio album by Joe McPhee and John Snyder
Released	1974
Recorded	April 1974 at CjR Studio in West Park, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	46:47
Label	CjR CjR 4 Atavistic ALP256CD
Joe McPhee chronology
Trinity (1972) Pieces of Light (1974) The Willisau Concert (1976)

Pieces of Light is the first studio album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee (with John Snyder on synthesizers) recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

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

• Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, E-Flat alto, modified nagoya harp, chimes, voice
• John Snyder - synthesizers

References

1. Joe McPhee discography accessed April 20, 2015
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