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Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Heliocentric; Outer Nothingness; Other Worlds; The Cosmos; Of Heavenly Things; Nebulae; Dancing in the Sun; A Sun Myth; A House of Beauty; Cosmic Chaos.

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Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3

Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2005
Track listing: Intercosmosis; Mythology Metamorphosis; Heliocentric Worlds; World Worlds; Interplanetary Travelers.

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: Nothing Is...

Read "Nothing Is..." reviewed by Rex  Butters


ESP's welcome reactivation continues with this reissue of Sun Ra's Nothing Is. The 1966 live recording has been resequenced to the set list's playing order, and it includes newly discovered performances. The improved package offers a more intimate look at one of Ra's most attractive ESP sessions. A dramatic build deflates to cubist Harlem with Sun ...

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Article: Book Review

Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation

Read "Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation The Collected Poetry and ProseJames L. Wolf and Hartmut Geerken, co-ed. Waitawhile ISBN: 3833426594 2005 “In his poems, as much as his music, Sun Ra seemed to want to undo and rewrite every concept he could get his ...

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Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2

Read "Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2" reviewed by Rex  Butters


ESP's reissue series matches two classics on one disc, Sun Ra's Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. 1 & 2. These two 1965 sessions feature the Arkestra playing out, but mostly in small units, and rarely with the quirky humor often in evidence on Ra recordings. This space seems more intimate and introspective than some other galactic narratives in ...

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Sun Ra: Nothing Is...

Read "Nothing Is..." reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


In 1966 Sun Ra performed a series of concerts sponsored by the New York council of Arts which were released as Nothing Is. The tunes were sequenced for LP release, but now, after extensive research, more material from the concert which took place at the St. Lawrence University in Potsdam, New York has been unearthed and ...

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Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3

Read "Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Have pity on the poor Sun Ra music collector. You see, those who “do research" on a single artist like Duke Ellington, Sonny Blount, or John Coltrane spend years and countless dollars chasing one thing, like a heroin addict who can never find a high as good as the first time. Those of us who had ...

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Solo Piano Recital - Teatro La Fenice, Venezia

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Sun Ra- piano

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Music for the 21st Century

Label: El Ra
Released: 2004
Track listing: Super Nova; Voices From Outer Space; Pulsar; Blue Intergalactic; Blue Sun; Century 21/Tomorrow's World; Light and Darkness/Theme for Sunny R In-B-Tween/Mr. Mystery; Reflex Motion; When You Wish Upon a Star; We Travel the Spaceways.

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Article: Jazz Primer

What is Jazz? Round 2

Read "What is Jazz? Round 2" reviewed by Alan Lawrence


What is jazz? Those three words form one of the toughest questions in music. Ask a hundred people and you are likely to get as many different answers. Few things have given me more pleasure in life than listening to the music we call jazz. Even after hearing several thousand recordings in over ...


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