Results for "Sun Ra"

The Night Of The Purple Moon

By Sun Ra

Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sun-Earth Rock; The All Of Everything; Impromptu Festival; Blue Soul; Narrative; Outside The Time Zone; The Night Of The Purple Moon; A Bird's Eye View Of A Man's World; 21st Century Romance; Dance Of The Living Image; Love In Outer Space; Love In Outer Space (Alternate Take); Wurlitzer and Celeste; Wurlitzer Solo 1; Wurlitzer Solo 2.

Sun Ra: Springtime in Chicago & Concert for the Comet Kohoutek

by Francis Lo Kee
November 3, 2007

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
August 15, 2007

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
June 7, 2007

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
May 31, 2007

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
May 22, 2007

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
March 13, 2006

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 ...

Chicago USA

By Sun Ra

Label: Polskie Nagrania Muza
Released: 2005

Sun Ra Tribute

By Sun Ra

Label: Polskie Nagrania Muza
Released: 2005