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Gilmore grew up in Chicago and played clarinet from the age of 14. [1] He took up the tenor saxophone while serving in the United States Air Force from 1948-1952, then pursued a musical career, playing briefly with pianist Earl Hines before encountering Sun Ra in 1953. For the next four decades, Gilmore recorded and performed almost exclusively with Sun Ra. This was puzzling to some, who noted Gilmore's talent, and thought he could be a major star like John Coltrane or Sonny Rollins. Coltrane, in fact, was impressed with Gilmore's playing, and took informal lessons from him in the late 1950's
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra)
By Sun Ra
Label: Strut Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sun Interlude; Love In Outer Space; The Shadow World (Excerpt); The Cosmic Explorer; The Cosmic Explorer; Untitled Piano Solo; Friendly Galaxy No. 2; Why Go To The Moon?/It’s After The End Of The World; Spontaneous Simplicity; Watusi; Percussion Interlude; Interstellar Low Ways; Somewhere Else; They’ll Come Back; Tone Science Interlude; The Satellites Are Spinning; Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space; Calling Planet Earth; Imagination; I’ll Wait For You; We Travel The Spaceways; The World Of Lightning; Blackmyth: The Shadows Took Shape; Strange Worlds; Journey Through The Outer Darkness; Myth Tone Poem (Untitled); Sky; Three Cheers For Ra; Prelude; Theme Of The Stargazers; The Shadow World; The Satellites Are Spinning; Second Stop Is Jupiter; Tone Science; Next Stop Mars; Spontaneous Simplicity; Friendly Galaxy No. 2; ‘Pleasant Twilight; Outer Spaceways Incorporated/You Better Get Ready; Enlightment; Calling Planet Earth; Space Bop (Untitled); Space Ballad (Untitled); Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space/Theme Of The Stargazers/We’ll Wait For You; Somebody Else’s Idea/Walking On The Moon/It’s After The End Of The World; We Travel The Spaceways; Tone Science Interlude; Days Of Wine And Roses; The Satellites Are Spinning.
Mats Gustafsson / Ken Vandermark / Tomeka Reid / Chad Taylor: PIVOT
by Mark Corroto
Do not judge a friend for buying a lottery ticket when the jackpot climbs to some astronomical sum. The odds of hitting the winning combination may be just as astronomical, but the dollar spent buys something more valuable than probability: a few hours of dreaming, imagining another life. Speaking of combinations, the newly formed quartet Pivot ...
Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra)
by John Sharpe
Discoveries of lost tapes are often trumpeted as legendary or revelatory, but in the case of the greatly expanded Nuits De La Fondation Maeght, the hype feels entirely warranted. The release offers a comprehensive view of a pivotal moment in Sun Ra's career. In 1970, Sun Ra was invited to play at the ...
At the Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)
By Sun Ra
Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
New Beginning; View From Another Dimension; Synthesis Approach; Ankhnaton; Rose Room; Moonship Journey; Velvet.
CD2:
Calling Planet Earth & The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Space is the Place; Ebah Speaks in Cosmic Tongue; Greetings from the 21st Century.
Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank
By Sun Ra
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Band Intro/Thunder of Dreams; Tapestry From an Asteroid; Somewhere Over the Rainbow;
A Pleasant Place in Space; Space Travelin' Blues; Yeah Man; Big John's Special; Lights on a
Satellite; Lady Bird/Half Nelson; Cocktails for Two; Watusi; They Plan to Leave; Images in a
Mirror; We Travel the Spaceways; Left Bank Blues; 'Round Midnight.
Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank
by Ian Patterson
Sun Ra aficionados seem to possess an insatiable appetite for archival recordings of the ever-evolving ensembles of the pianist, composer and bandleader. Born Helman Poole Blount, in Alabama, in 1914, Ra released possibly as many as 200 albums during his lifetime, including extremely limited pressings with hand-painted covers that he sold in person. You might think ...
Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank
by Mark Corroto
Sun Ra's 1978 performance at Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society ballroom had something for everyone. The great man and his Arkestra, along with singer June Tyson and dancers, performed jazz from its inception to what Ra predicted (correctly) as its future. This recording is the second unissued discovery from Zev Feldman, the “Jazz Detective," and it ...
Top Ten Sci-Fi Jazz Albums
by Chris May
On The Launch Pad Robert Frosch, head honcho at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1977 to 1981, wrote that at cocktail parties he was sometimes asked whether NASA had some gizmo or other that had recently been brought to fictional life in a sci-fi book or movie. If Frosch's answer was “No," the next ...
Benny Golson, John Gilmore and Bud Powell
by David Brown
This week on the Jazz Continuum we kick things off celebrating the earth arrival day of saxophonist John Gilmore, born on this day in 1931. Gilmore is best known for his work with Sun Ra, but here we have him performing with Andrew Hill. Then, some trumpet works form the new release by Adam O'Farrill followed ...
