Science Fiction is a great, great record - really good entry point for the avant jazz scene.
Absolutely. A fantastic album, especially for the fantastic double-stop bass playing.
Listening to that reminds me of a joke you will likely hear multiple times if you play bigband gigs: How do you get 2 _your_own_instrument players to play unison? You shoot one of them. How do you get 2 _other_guy's_instrument players to play unison? You shoot both of them.