Sun Ra - Standards - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Strut presents the definitive remastered edition of Sun Ra's classic Lanquidity album from 1978. Album Tracks 1. Lanquidity 2. Where Pathways Meet 3. That's How I Feel 4. Twin Stars of Thence 5. There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You of)

Enshrined in the Penguin Jazz Guide's InchCore CollectionInch, this quintessential platter of Sun Ra's late 1950s Chicago ensemble showcases the brilliant tenor sax stylings of John Gilmore, and introduces Arkestra mainstays Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, and Ronnie Boykins. Recorded and issued in 1959, it marks a coda for the bandleader's bebop/hard-bop stage, as his interstellar traveler persona began to transform the band (and the music). Many of the early works on these recordings would remain staples in Arkestra set lists for the rest of Sun Ra's life. Includes the complete, contemporaneous Sound Sun Pleasure LP, rare stereo mixes, and bonus tracks. Album Tracks 1. Enlightment (Stereo)Saturn 2. Velvet 3. Ancient Aiethopia (Stereo) 4. 'Round Midnight 5. You Never Told Me That You Care 6. Hour of Parting 7. Back in Your Own Back Yard 8. I Could Have Danced All Night 9. State Street (Alternate, Previously Unreleased) 10. Blues from Saturn (Previously Unreleased) 11. Hours After (Single Version) 12. Great Balls of Fire (Single) 13. Horoscope (Stereo, Incomplete, Previously Unreleased)

Double yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. Sun Ra was a master of misdirection. Tape boxes wrongly labeled-whether by accident or design-are legendary among Ra archivists. One can speculate about the artist's intent or carelessness, but source misinformation abounds on Ra tape cases, album jackets, cassettes, ephemera-as well as in interviews. It's as if Ra, in furtherance of his own mythmaking, wanted to keep historians guessing. This project began as a misidentified tape discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. The 7-inch reel, which contained a live Ra solo piano performance of 11 works-some recognizable, others not-was of stellar quality, and was marked as a 1979 Carnegie Hall date. But the program on the tape did not align with known facts (e.g., titles played, concert duration) which were chronicled in a Newsday review of Ra's appearance at Carnegie in September of that year. With a prod from writer/historian Ted Gioia and further research by myself, the tape was eventually identified as a mostly unreleased July 1977 performance by Ra at a downtown NYC Inchjazz caféInch called The Axis-in-Soho. Album Tracks 1. Axis Rhapsody 2. St. Louis Blues 3. Blue Play 4. Axis Nexus 5. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 6. Axis Extempore 7. Honeysuckle Rose - Enlightment 8. Space Is Place 9. Axis Impromptu 10. Everything I Have Is Yours 11. At Sundown 12. June Night 13. Rumination