Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth | ||||
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Studio album by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1966 | |||
Recorded | 1956–58, Chicago[1] | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Saturn Evidence | |||
Producer | Alton Abraham | |||
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra chronology | ||||
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Allmusic | [2] |
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth is a jazz album by the American musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Recorded between late 1956 and 1958, the album was originally released on Ra's own Saturn label in 1966, and was reissued on CD by Evidence in 1992. In keeping with many Saturn releases, one side features cuts from the arkestra c.1958, whilst the other side comes from the 1956 sessions originally intended for Sound of Joy but still unreleased in 1966.
Track listing
12" Vinyl
All songs by Sun Ra unless otherwise noted;
Side A:
- "Planet Earth" - (4.54)
- "Eve" - (5.35)
- "Overtones of China" - (4.21)
Side B:
- "Reflections in Blue" - (5.55)
- "Two Tones" (Patrick, Davis) - (3.36)
- "El Viktor" - (2.28)
- "Saturn" - (3.55)
The sides were switched for the Evidence reissue, as well as being coupled with the album Interstellar Low Ways.
Musicians
On Reflections In Blue, Two Tones, El Viktor and Saturn, recorded at the Balkan Studio, Chicago, November 1, 1956;[3]
- Sun Ra - Piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
- Art Hoyle - Trumpet
- John Avant or Julian Priester - Trombone
- Pat Patrick - Alto sax, tenor sax
- John Gilmore - Tenor sax
- Charles Davis - Baritone sax
- Victor Sproles - Bass
- William Cochran - Drums
- Jim Herndon - Tympani, timbales
On Planet Earth, Eve and Overtones of China recorded at Rehearsals, late 1957 or 1958;[3]
- Sun Ra - Wurlitzer Electric Piano, Piano, Percussion
- Lucious Randolph - Trumpet
- Nate Pryor - Trombone
- James Spaulding - Alto Sax
- Marshall Allen - Alto Sax, Flute
- John Gilmore - Tenor Sax, Percussion
- Pat Patrick - Baritone Sax, Alto Sax, 'Space Lute', Percussion
- Charles Davis - Baritone Sax
- Ronnie Boykins - Bass
- Robert Barry - Drums
- Jim Herndon - Tympani
See also
References
External links
- Complete Sun Ra's Discography
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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