Broken Shadows is an album by the American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman recorded in 1971, at the same sessions that produced Science Fiction, but not released on the Columbia label until 1982.
[1] The contents of the album were included in the 2000 compilation The Complete Science Fiction Sessions.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Cut prior to Coleman's formation of Prime Time, these performances serve as an unintentional retrospective of his career up to that point".
Palmer praised "Good Girl Blues," describing it as "an extravagantly imaginative updating of the Southwestern jump blues that Mr. Coleman played as a young man," and commenting: "The tune is weird, perhaps a little disorienting.
Listening to it is something like finding yourself between stations on the radio, with the blues in one ear and an atonal woodwind quintet in the other.