Jazz by Sun Ra
Jazz By Sun Ra | ||||
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![]() Original Transition pressing, 1957 | ||||
Studio album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1957 | |||
Recorded | July 12, 1956 | |||
Studio | Universal Recording Corp. (Chicago) | |||
Genre | Post-bop, big band | |||
Length | 40:14 | |||
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Producer | Tom Wilson | |||
Sun Ra and his Arkestra chronology | ||||
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reissue cover | ||||
![]() Delmark reissue 1967, retitled Sun Song | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Jazz By Sun Ra (later titled Sun Song) is the debut album by Sun Ra.[4] The record label for the first pressing says "07-12-56", presumably when it was recorded.[5] The LP originally appeared on Tom Wilson's short-lived Transition Records. In the mid-1960s it was purchased (along with much of the Transition catalog) by Delmark Records owner Bob Koester, finally being reissued in 1967.
When originally released, it came with an extensive booklet featuring words and photos of Sun Ra and his Arkestra. The LP featured original compositions by Sun Ra along with one by Arkestral bassist Richard Evans. Another composition by Arkestra member Julian Priester has been included in reissues from the session, and additional unreleased tracks (all Ra originals) are known to survive. The single non-Arkestral composition was Possession, by Harry Revel, which had been written for Les Baxter's album Perfume Set to Music; Possession was arranged for the Arkestra by the Texan pianist and composer Prince Shell.
Earlier home recordings by Ra, including one dating from 1948 or 1949, were released with tracks from 1973 on the album Deep Purple.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Sun Ra except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Brainville" | 4:29 | |
2. | "Call For All Demons" | 4:30 | |
3. | "Transition" | 3:40 | |
4. | "Possession" | Harry Revel | 5:00 |
5. | "Street Named Hell" | 3:55 | |
Total length: | 21:34 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Lullaby For Realville" | Richard Evans | 4:40 |
7. | "Future" | 3:15 | |
8. | "New Horizons" | 3:05 | |
9. | "Fall Off The Log" | 4:00 | |
10. | "Sun Song" | 3:40 | |
Total length: | 18:40 |
When reissued on Compact Disc in 1991, "Swing a Little Taste" was added. This was originally released on the Transition sampler Jazz in Transition alongside tracks by artists such as Cecil Taylor, Donald Byrd and John Coltrane.
CD version
- "Brainville" (Sun Ra) 4:29
- "Call for all Demons" (Sun Ra) 4:30
- "Transition" (Sun Ra) 3:40
- "Possession" (Harry Revel) 5:00
- "Street Named Hell" (Sun Ra) 3:55
- "Lullaby for Realville" (Richard Evans) 4:40
- "Future" (Sun Ra) 3:15
- "Swing a Little Taste" (Sun Ra) 4:25
- "New Horizons" (Sun Ra) 3:05
- "Fall off the Log" (Sun Ra) 4:00
- "Sun Song" (Sun Ra) 3:40
Musicians
Source:[6]
- Sun Ra - Piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Percussion
- Art Hoyle - Trumpet, Percussion
- Dave Young - Trumpet, Percussion
- Julian Priester - Trombone, Percussion
- James Scales - Alto Sax
- John Gilmore - Tenor sax, Percussion
- Pat Patrick - Baritone Sax, Percussion
- Richard Evans - Bass
- Wilburn Green - Electric Bass, Percussion
- Robert Barry - Drums
- Jim Herndon - Tympani
Recorded Universal Recording, Chicago, July 12, 1956
Pressings
Year | Format | Region | Label | Title |
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1957 | LP | US | Transition | Jazz By Sun Ra |
SE | Sonet | |||
1967 | US | Delmark | Sun Song | |
1968 | UK | |||
1971 | FR | Goody | ||
1972 | JP | Trio | Jazz By Sun Ra | |
1990 | CD | US | Delmark | Sun Song |
1993 | Cass | |||
2001 | LP | |||
2003 | CD | JP | P-Vine | |
2009 | LP | NL | 6 Spices, Music & Words | |
2012 | CD | JP | P-Vine | |
2014 | US | Delmark | ||
2015 | LP | UK | Poppydisc & Rev-Ola | Jazz By Sun Ra |
2016 | ||||
2019 | Not Now Music |
External sources
- Complete Sun Ra Discography
References
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 186. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1356. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Sun Ra Discography Items 1-25
- ^ Sun Ra – Jazz By Sun Ra
- ^ Reissue sleeve notes, Delmark
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods