Sun Ra
Summary: Across the history of jazz, there is no wilder composer and performer than Sun Ra. Known primarily for his improv and freeform band arrangements, he could also write a great vocal. This collection is the first to showcase his vocal tracks.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Contents: CD1: Somewhere in space -- Lady with the golden stockings -- Somebody else's world -- Spontaneous simplicity -- Plutonian nights -- Angels and demons at play -- Island in the sun -- Rocket number nine take off for planet Venus --- Solar differentials.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Contents: Tiny pyramids (3:38) -- Between two worlds (1:56) -- Music from the world tomorrow (2:20) -- Angels and demons at play (2:51) -- Urnack (3:46) -- Medicine for a nightmare (2:16) -- A call for all demons (4:12) -- Demon's lullaby (2:35) -- Plutonian nights (4:20) -- The golden lady (7:40) -- Star time (4:15) -- Nubia (8:13) -- Africa (5:04) -- Watusa (2:35) -- Aiethopia (7:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence 1993
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Contents: But not for me.--Day by day.--Holiday for strings.--Dorothy's dance.--Early autumn.--I loves you, Porgy.--Body and soul.--Keep your sunny side up.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence 1996
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2020
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Contents: Nuclear war (7:44) -- Retrospect (5:40) -- Drop me off in Harlem (5:03) -- Sometimes I'm happy (4:27) -- Celestial love (5:30) -- Blue intensity (5:14) -- Nameless one No. 2 (3:59) -- Smile (4:25)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atavistic 2001
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Contents: The others in their world (2:14) -- Space mates (7:09) -- Lights of a satellite (3:38) -- Distant stars (2:53) -- Kingdom of thunder (3:49) -- Fate in a pleasant mood (2:42) -- Ankhnaton (3:24) -- Circe (3:50) -- The Nile (4:50) -- Brazilian sun (3:50) -- We travel the spaceways (3:20) -- Calling planet earth (5:30) -- Dancing shadows (5:55) -- The rainmaker (4:32) -- When Sun comes out (4:53)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence Music 1993
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Contents: The sun myth (17:50) -- A house of beauty (4:45) -- Cosmic chaos (14:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Abraxas/ESP-Disk' 1992
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Contents: Days of happiness (7:29) -- Magic city blue (4:49) -- Tenderness (8:36) -- Blithe spirit dance (10:37) -- God is more than love can ever be (6:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Contents: I am an instrument -- I am strange -- Chicago USA ; Spaceship lullaby (the Nu Sounds with Sun Ra) -- Daddy's gonna tell you no lie (the Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra and Arkestra) -- A foggy day (the Nu Sounds with Sun Ra and Arkestra) -- I'm coming home ; Last call for love (Billie Hawkins with Sun-Ra and his orchestra) -- Soft talk ; Super blonde (Sun-Ra and his Arkistra [sic]) -- Saturn ; Call...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Contents: Carefree -- Untitled (Echoes of the future) -- Prelude to a kiss -- Hocus pocus -- Theme of the stargazers -- Interstellar lo-ways -- Calling planet earth -- Satellites are s[c]anning -- S'wonderful -- We travel the spaceways.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Enja 1992
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Contents: Priest (4:01) -- Discipline ; Tall trees in the sun (8:26) -- 'S wonderful (5:32) -- Hole in the sky (7:31) -- Somewhere else, part 1 (8:38) -- Somewhere else, part 2 (2:41) -- Stardust for tomorrow (4:56) -- Love in outer space (12:01) -- Everything is space (3:57) -- Tristar (3:31).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1993
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Contents: It's after the end of the world -- Under different stars -- Discipline 33 -- Watusa -- Calling planet earth -- I am the alter-destiny -- Satellites are spinning -- Cosmic force -- Outer spaceways incorporated -- We travel the spaceways -- The overseer -- Blackman/love in outer space -- Mysterious crystal -- I am the brother of the wind -- We'll wait for you -- Space is the place.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence Music 1993
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Contents: Spaceship lullaby -- Stranger in Paradise -- Just one of those things -- Honky tonk -- Haunted heart -- Evelyn -- Honeysuckle rose -- Honey -- Black sky & blue moon -- Ra coaching Roland Williams -- Holiday for strings -- I fall asleep counting my blessings -- Nice work if you can get it -- Somebody loves me -- Chicago USA -- C'est si bon -- Blue moon -- Baby please be mine -- Blue skies -- My...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atavistic 2003
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Contents: Burton Greene introduction -- Sun Ra and his band from outer space -- The shadow world -- Interpolation -- The satellites are spinning -- Advice to medics -- Velvet -- Space aura -- The exotic forest -- Theme of the star gazers -- Outer space ways incorporated -- Dancing shadows -- Imagination -- The second stop is Jupiter -- The next stop Mars -- The satellites are spinning -- Velvet --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ESP-Disk' 2010
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Contents: Heliocentri.--Outer nothingness.--Other worlds.--The cosmos.--Of heavenly things.--Nebulae.--Dancing in the sun.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Abraxas 1996
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Contents: Space fling / Sun Ra (7:37) -- Flamingo / Grouya, Anderson (4:44) -- Space is the place / Sun Ra (9:48) -- The sunny side of the street / J. McHugh (9:35) -- Manhattan cocktail / Sun Ra (9:54).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universe 2001
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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Contents: Celestial road (7:02) -- Say (12:05) -- I'll wait for you (16:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1987
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Contents: India (4:49) -- Sunology (5:40) -- Advice to medics (2:02) -- Super blonde (2:35) -- Soft talk / Julian Priester (2:41) -- Sunology part II (7:05) -- Kingdom of not (5:32) -- Portrait of the living sky (1:48) -- Blues at midnight (6:30) -- El is a sound of joy (3:56) -- Springtime in Chicago (3:51) -- Medicine for a nightmare (2:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence 1991
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Contents: Intro percussion (4:19) -- Prelude to a kiss (6:19) -- Blue Lou (4:58) -- Lights on a satellite (5:42) -- Alabama (9:06) -- Fate in a pleasant mood (6:57) -- We travel the spaceways (11:10) -- Space is the place (9:53).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Records 1993
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Contents: 'Round midnight (21:04) / Thelonious Monk -- Sun Ra blues (16:11) / Sun Ra -- Autumn in New York (11:00) / Vernon Duke -- 'S wonderful (10:58) / Ira Gershwin ; George Gershwin -- Theme of the stargazers (5:31) / Sun Ra.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SUNSun Ra Arkestra
Contents: State Street Chicago -- Nothin' from nothin' -- Yesterdays -- Say it isn't so -- I dream too much -- Reflections in blue.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Saint 1987