Results for "Sun Ra"

Article: Year in Review

I dischi del 2024 secondo Giuseppe Segala

by Giuseppe Segala
December 27, 2024

Non c'è molto da aggiungere a questa lista: solo il fatto che l'ordine è alfabetico e, naturalmente, non segue una classifica di merito. Senza dubbio il 2024 ci ha dato tanta bella musica, da ascoltare e riascoltare. Purtroppo tante segnalazioni sono rimaste oltre il confine dei dieci CD: in tanti casi l'inclusione o meno è dovuta ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Sounds Plus Older Live Performances

by Bob Osborne
December 26, 2024

This show includes some fascinating new releases from contemporary artists combined with previously unavailable older live material from some of the legends of jazz. To close we have a memorable live performance by David Murray from 1977.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Gerald Clayton Out Of/Into “Aspiring To Normalcy" from Motion I (Blue Note) 00:28 Ivo ...

Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank

Read "Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
December 25, 2024

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Marshall Allen, Leiba Trio & Gold Mother

by Maurice Hogue
December 23, 2024

Lights On A Satellite is a fitting title for an album celebrating the 100-year-old miracle, saxophonist Marshall Allen, the mainstay of Sun Ra's legacy. His continuing direction of the Sun Ra Arkestra puts him right up there beside Planet Ra. Other new releases sampled in this episode come from a very worthy Leiba Trio from Argentina ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Nau and Catherine Sikora

by Hobart Taylor
December 11, 2024

New music from Shabaka, Satoko Fujii, John Patitucci as well as a meditation from soprano saxophonist Catherine Sikora. For jazz adjacent music we feature composers Julia Wolfe and Joseph Daley. Playlist Satoko Fujii Natsuki Tamura Ramon Lopez" Yama Kawa Umi" from Yama Kawa Umi (Not Two) 0:00 Sun Ra" Lights on a Satellite" from ...

Article: Live Review

Sun Ra Arkestra at Great American Music Hall

by Harry S. Pariser
December 10, 2024

Sun Ra Arkestra Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA November 22, 23, 24, 2024 The Great American Music Hall has long served as an anchor of San Francisco's music scene. As jazz bookings here are infrequent, it was great news when the venue welcomed back the Sun Ra Arkestra for ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Mark Corroto
December 8, 2024

Ahh, the “Best Of" lists, when I get the privilege to tell you “what is what." For me, the releases below are not the best discs of 2024 but the ones I kept coming back to most often this past year. I certainly missed a few, as I will discover reading other AAJ contributor's best-of lists. ...

Article: Year in Review

Lawrence Peryer's Jazz & Beyond for 2024

by Lawrence Peryer
December 7, 2024

I very much enjoy the moment we are in for improvisatory and creative music. So many traditions are coming into contact and interacting with each other: jazz cats, indigenous practitioners, electronic music experimenters, modern composers and many others. The breakdown and blurring of genre divides and dogma is something I revel in. “Collision Music," to quote ...

Article: Journey into Jazz

2024 Record Store Day Black Friday Jazz Releases

by Kyle Simpler
November 28, 2024

Record Store Day Black Friday is back for 2024. There are releases that appeal to practically every genre of music, and jazz is no exception. This year's lineup features releases for jazz enthusiasts and vinyl collectors alike. From previously unreleased live performances to excellent vinyl debuts, this year's offerings showcase a variety of jazz styles. Below ...

Article: Album Review

Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights on a Satellite

Read "Lights on a Satellite" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
November 26, 2024

As befits a being whose life encompassed much of the Solar System, from his origins on Saturn to his long earthly sojourn that ended in 1993, Sun Ra composed, played and recorded an astronomical panoply of musical styles across six decades. Lights On A Satellite, a new double album released by Germany's In+Out Records, presents a ...