Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games Available On:LP with a particularly fierce solo

with a particularly fierce solo thanks to Zoot Horn Rollo

A rapturous aura permeates opener Govinda Jai Jai with Alice leading on Fender Rhodes

going for a non-denominational statue vibe

” “Our House

including the track “Tidal Wave” (featured in TV’s Breaking Bad)

Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games Available On:LP with a particularly fierce soloFifth part of the Strata East Dolphy Series, Glass Bead Games is arguably the crown jewel of the Strata East movement, an amorphous genre that treads an unusual path between post bop, 70s avant garde and spiritual jazz, with a groove. 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