The swinging weirdness quotient is high on Science Fiction, especially on 'What Reason Could I Give,' 'Street Woman,' and 'Civilization Day.' The title track is an out, free-blowing fest that sounds hopelessly dated but is still cool, and on the tracks 'School Work,' 'Broken Shadows,' and 'Happy House,' listeners hear the first traces of the themes Coleman continues to employ. Augmenting these bands in places are pianist Cedar Walton, guitarist Jim Hall, trumpeter Bobby Bradford, vocalist Asha Puthi, and Science Fiction narrator, poet David Henderson. His classic early bands are reunited here with trumpeter Don Cherry, saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummers Ed Blackwell and Billy Higgins. The sizes of the ensembles range from septet to quartet to up to 11 players. Coleman assembled mostly alumni for his September 1971 sessions in the Columbia studios. On this double set, both of those records and three previously unreleased cuts from those sessions are together at last. Science Fiction was a regular part of Columbia's jazz catalogue, and Broken Shadows was released on LP in 1982. Finally, on a pair of CDs in one collection are the rest of Ornette Coleman's Columbia recordings, all of them done before Skies of America.
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