New Steps
New Steps | ||||
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Studio album by Sun Ra Quartet | ||||
Released | 1978 | |||
Recorded | January 2 & 7, 1978 Horo Voice Studio, Rome | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 65:36 | |||
Label | Horo HDP 25–26 | |||
Producer | Aldo Sinesio | |||
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New Steps is a double album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Quartet recorded in Italy in 1978 and originally released on the Italian Horo label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4 stars. "New Steps is one of several albums done with this basic lineup in January of 1978. This album is billed to the Sun Ra Quartet, but it sounds like there's a bass player present on at least some of the cuts (it could be Ra, but he'd need three hands). There are two standards amongst a program of Ra originals, and things get started with a stellar version of "My Favorite Things." The music quickly takes its only sharp turn toward outer space as Ra introduces listeners to "Moon People," the only track where Ra emphasizes synthesizer over piano. "Sun Steps" is a slow tune featuring some beautiful piano playing from Sun Ra. In fact, the remainder of the album is on the mellow side ("When There Is No Sun" is the only track with vocals), and features some great statements by John Gilmore and Ra. Michael Ray is in fine form as well, if somewhat less exuberant than usual. With such a small group, solo space is ample, and Luqman Ali's understated drumming really holds things together nicely. Another fabulous release from Sun Ra".[2]
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Track listing
All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated
Side One:
- "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 7:49
- "Moon People" – 7:50
Side Two:
- "Sun Steps" – 11:37
- "Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 6:04
Side Three:
- "Friend and Friendship" – 6:58
- "Rome at Twilight" – 5:08
- "When There Is No Sun" – 4:37
Side Four:
- "The Horo" – 15:33
Personnel
- Sun Ra – piano, Crumar Mainman organ, vocals
- John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion vocals
- Michael Ray – trumpet, vocals
- Luqman Ali – drums
References
- ^ Sun Ra discography accessed July 4, 2014
- ^ a b Westergaard, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 4, 2014
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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
period
studio
albums
period
studio
albums
- 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
period
studio
albums
- 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
albums
- 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