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Sun Ra

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Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations. And well it should, since Sun Ra has been both apart of and ahead of the jazz tradition during that time. Like Duke Ellington and swing-era pioneer Fletcher Henderson, Sun Ra learned early on to write music in an arranged form that showcased the specific talents of his individual Arkestra members, and he has retained the services of some of these musicians to this day: John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, and Julian Priester for example since they first joined in the 1950's

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: Space Is The Place

Read "Space Is The Place" reviewed by James Fleming


He was a solar flare, a surge of energy that rocketed across great distances and divides, bestowing all he encountered with unforgettable memories and disrupting radio transmissions. Science-fiction, transcendentalism, and jazz coalesced in the being called Sun Ra. A radical concoction, sky-bound and heaven-sent. Ra's music was always stratospheric, always reaching above and beyond. ...

Album

Space Is The Place

Label: Carsten Lindholm
Released: 2012

Album

Space Is The Place

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1973
Track listing: Space Is The Place; Images; Discipline; Sea Of Sounds; Rocket Number Nine.


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