Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead GamesFifth 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

and Andy Kaufman as much as musical antecedents AR Rahmann

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And at the vocal helm is Denée

you have surely heard of some of the bands (Pavement

the classic pixies sound is present throughout as are the effortlessly catchy 'black francis' melodies

The Fresh and Onlys' fifth album

Available on indies-only limited edition purple vinyl

riffing on pop

Throughout human history

with more reissues of Hiroshi’s works to follow in the future

This would be the closest Coltrane ever came to chamber music

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