| Pieces of Light | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Joe McPhee and John Snyder |
| Cover: | Pieces of Light.jpg |
| Released: | 1974 |
| Recorded: | April 1974 at CjR Studio in West Park, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 46:47 |
| Label: | CjR CjR 4 Atavistic ALP256CD |
| Chronology: | Joe McPhee |
| Prev Title: | Trinity |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | The Willisau Concert |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
Pieces of Light is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee with John Snyder on synthesizer recorded in 1972 and originally released on the CjR label, then reissued by Atavistic in 2005.[1]
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". 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".[2]
All compositions by Joe McPhee and John Snyder