Season of Glass [Remaster] (CD - 1981)

Includes liner notes by Yoko Ono.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Personnel: Yoko Ono (vocals, background vocals); Hugh McCracken (guitar, harp); Anthony Davilio, John Lennon (guitar, keyboards); Earl Slick (guitar); George Opalisky (saxophone, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Michael Brecker (saxophone, tenor saxophone); Ronnie Cuber (saxophone, baritone saxophone); Howard Johnson (tuba, horns); George Small (keyboards); David Friedman (vibraphone, percussion, background vocals); John Siegler, Andy Newmark (drums); Jack Douglas, Arthur Jenkins (percussion).

Audio Remasterer: George Marino.

Recording information: HIt Factory.

Photographers: Allan Tannenbaum; Bob Gruen.

Unknown Contributor Role: Sean Lennon.

After John Lennon's murder, Yoko took her anguish into the recording studio and emerged with this raw collection of songs. From the gunshots before the cut "No, No, No" to John's bloody glasses on the cover, this is harrowing stuff indeed. But it's surprisingly good, if only for the fact that the whole world was feeling similarly at the time. One of the most essential Yoko Ono releases, it's powerful and chilling. The CD reissue adds two bonus cuts: the single "Walking on Thin Ice" and a previously unreleased version of "I Don't Know Why," an a cappella home cassette recording made the day after Lennon's assassination. ~ James Chrispell

SEASONS OF GLASS was Yoko Ono's first solo album in the wake of John Lennon's death. In a controversial move-hailed by some as brave and defiant but denounced by others as tasteless and exploitative-SEASONS' cover photo depicts the view of Central Park from the apartment Ono and Lennon shared. Lennon's bloodied, shattered glasses sit on the windowsill, in the foreground. It's a staggering image and one that accurately reflects the music .

Though most of SEASONS was recorded before Lennon's murder, it's impossible to hear the songs without that event in mind. Tragedy adds layers of poignancy to such songs as "Goodbye Sadness" and "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" and intensifies the anger of "She Gets Down On Her Knees" and "No No No." This reissue contains four bonus tracks, one of which ("Walking On Thin Ice") was the song Lennon and Ono were working on the night Lennon was killed. minimize