Science Fiction (Ornette Coleman album)

Science Fiction is an album by the American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, recorded in September and October of 1971 and released on Columbia Records in February 1972.^[2]

In 2000, the album was re-released along with Broken Shadows (recorded during the same sessions but not released until 1982) and several unreleased tracks as The Complete Science Fiction Sessions.^[3]

Recording

Science Fiction features Coleman's early 1970s quartet, consisting of Coleman (alto saxophone, trumpet, violin), Charlie Haden (double bass), Ed Blackwell (drums), and Dewey Redman (tenor saxophone).^[4] It also features performances by former Coleman sidemen Billy Higgins (drums), Don Cherry (pocket trumpet), and Bobby Bradford (trumpet), and vocals by Indian-American singer Asha Puthli on two tracks and American poet David Henderson on the title track.^[4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
Pitchfork	9.5/10^[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 5 stars and stated: "Science Fiction was [Coleman's] creative rebirth, a stunningly inventive and appropriately alien-sounding blast of manic energy... Science Fiction is a meeting ground between Coleman's past and future; it combines the fire and edge of his Atlantic years with strong hints of the electrified, globally conscious experiments that were soon to come. And, it's overflowing with brilliance".^[5] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide called it "fascinating" and "multifaceted" in another five-star review.^[4] Reviewing the album for Pitchfork, Daniel Felsenthal called it "a one-of-a-kind dispatch from the vibrant, polygenic, and contested lofts of downtown New York" and "a welcome return to the singable, quintessentially Southern melodicism that counterbalanced [Coleman's] dauntless early oeuvre".^[6]

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

"What Reason Could I Give?" – 3:06
"Civilization Day" – 6:04
"Street Woman" – 4:50
"Science Fiction" – 5:03
"Rock the Clock" – 3:16
"All My Life" – 3:56
"Law Years" – 5:22
"The Jungle Is a Skyscraper" – 5:26

Recorded at Columbia Studio E, NYC on September 9 (tracks 2, 3, 7 and 8), September 10 (track 4) and October 13 (tracks 1, 5 and 6), 1971

Personnel

Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone, trumpet, violin
Don Cherry – pocket trumpet (tracks 2–4)
Bobby Bradford – trumpet (tracks 4, 7–8)
Carmine Fornarotto, Gerard Schwarz – trumpet (tracks 1 and 6)
Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone, musette (tracks 1, 4–8)
Charlie Haden – double bass, electric double bass with wah-wah pedal
Billy Higgins – drums (tracks 1–4, 6)
Ed Blackwell – drums (tracks 1, 4–8)
David Henderson – recitation (track 4)
Asha Puthli – vocals (tracks 1, 6)

References

^ "Billboard". February 26, 1972.
^ Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 30, 2010
^ Jurek, Thom. "Complete Science Fiction Sessions". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 45. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ ^a ^b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed November 30, 2010
^ ^a ^b Felsenthal, Daniel (February 25, 2024). "Ornette Coleman: Science Fiction Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 25, 2024.

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Discography
Studio albums	Something Else!!!! (1958) Tomorrow Is the Question! (1959) The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) Change of the Century (1960) This Is Our Music (1961) Free Jazz (1961) Ornette! (1962) Ornette on Tenor (1962) Chappaqua Suite (1965) The Empty Foxhole (1966) New York Is Now! (1968) Love Call (1968) Science Fiction (1971) Skies of America (1972) Dancing in Your Head (1976) Body Meta (1976) Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977) Of Human Feelings (1982) Song X (1986) In All Languages (1987) Virgin Beauty (1988) Tone Dialing (1995) Sound Museum: Hidden Man (1996) Sound Museum: Three Women (1996)
Compilation albums	The Art of the Improvisers (1970) Twins (1971) To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975) Broken Shadows (1982) Beauty Is a Rare Thing (1995)
Live albums	Town Hall, 1962 (1965) At the "Golden Circle" Vol. 1 & 2 (1966) Ornette at 12 (1968) Crisis (1969) Friends and Neighbors: Live at Prince Street (1970) The Belgrade Concert (1971) Opening the Caravan of Dreams (1985) Prime Design/Time Design (1986) Colors: Live from Leipzig (1997) Sound Grammar (2006)
Related articles	Jayne Cortez (ex-wife) Denardo Coleman (son) Prime Time "Broadway Blues" (composition) "Lonely Woman" (composition)

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