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Sun Ra: Springtime in Chicago & Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
by Francis Lo Kee
Sun Ra Concert for the Comet Kohoutek ESP-Disk 2007 Sun Ra Springtime in Chicago Leo 2007 The great composer/bandleader Sun Ra would urge his musicians, “play what ...
Sun Ra: The Night Of The Purple Moon
by Troy Collins
One of a rare handful of small group sessions, The Night Of The Purple Moon is one of bandleader Sun Ra's most accessible and enjoyable albums. Similar in scope to side one of Atlantis (Evidence, 1967), Cymbals (Evidence, 1973), New Steps (Horo, 1978) and Other Voices, Other Blues (Horo, 1978); this stripped-down studio session is a ...
Sun Ra: Toward The Stars
by Nic Jones
The bandleader, keyboard player and composer christened Herman Blount made his reputation under the name of Sun Ra, and this compilation of pieces from the early years of his career could almost be an exercise in confounding expectations at the same time as it amounts to a strong case for Ra and his recorded legacy. In ...
Sun Ra: Strange Strings
by Troy Collins
Emblematic of its title, this is one of the most unusual albums in the vast discography of visionary bandleader Sun Ra. In league with such classics as Heliocentric Worlds (ESP, 1965), The Magic City (Evidence, 1965) and Atlantis (Evidence, 1967), this obscure session focuses on similarly intense long-form improvisations. Originally recorded in 1966, Strange Strings is ...
Face The Music
Featuring the music of Sun Ra
Duration: 6:00
What Planet Is This?
By Sun Ra
Label: Golden Years of New Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: Untitled Improvisation; Astro Black; Discipline 27; Untitled Improvisation; Space Is The Place;
Enlightenment; Love In Outer Space; The Shadow World; Watusa, Egyptian March; Discipline
27 II including What Planet Is This? / The Universe Sent Me To Converse With You / My
Brother The Sun.
Sun Ra and His Space Arkestra: What Planet Is This?
by John Eyles
It is appropriate that this double album is being released by Leo Records' Golden Years imprint. Recorded in New York in July, 1973, it features as large an Arkestra as any that Sun Ra put together and includes all of his key collaborators. What Planet Is This? comes from the crucial period when Sun Ra had ...
Nothing Is...
By Sun Ra
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sun Ra and His Band From Outer Space; The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Outer Spaceways Incorporated; Next Stop Mars; Dancing Shadows; Imagination; Second Stop is Jupiter; Exotic Forest; Velvet; Outer Nothingness; We Travel the Spaceways
