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Jazz, Avantgarde Jazz, Free Jazz, Improvisations, Space Jazz, CD kiadvány, 2018.
The foremost figure in musical Afro-futurism and space-jazz. Keyboardist, composer, Arkestra leader, arranger, philosopher-jester, fashion icon, cosmic guide. Born Herman Blount in Alabama, 1914, left the planet in 1993, giving Earthlings a monumental catalog of recordings that transcend genre.
„Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow”, a key transitional album in the Sun Ra catalog, was produced in two sessions shortly after the bandleader’s 1961 migration from Chicago to New York (with a brief stopover in Montreal). One of about a dozen Arkestra albums compiled from recordings made at the Choreographer’s Workshop, Art Forms displays Sun Ra‘s increasing tendency to juxtapose stylistic incongruities on vinyl in the interests of showcasing his versatility—or accommodating restless attention spans (perhaps his own).
After arriving in Gotham, Sunny set about broadening his resume by reinventing older jazz and blues forms while edging towards tomorrow’s dimensions. „Cluster of Galaxies” and „Solar Drums” are modernistic percussion soundscapes, bracketing „Ankh #1,” a swaggering R&B rework of a late ’50s tune from the artist’s Chicago years. „The Outer Heavens,” sans rhythm section, echoes Third Stream chamber jazz, while „Infinity of the Universe” offsets a percussion battalion with thunderous low-register piano. „Lights on a Satellite” and „Kosmos in Blue,” both recorded at an earlier Choreographer’s session, ground the set on terra firma with some stylish hard bop. „Lights” remained a staple in Sunny’s concert repertoire for the rest of his life.
Like many albums recorded during this period, Art Forms was not released on Saturn until several years later (1965), by which time Sun Ra‘s repertoire and concerts had progressed beyond conventional jazz forms. („Lights on a Satellite” and „Kosmos in Blue” were recorded at the late 1961 session from which emerged the „Bad & Beautiful” album—which was not released until 1972.) Like all Choreographer’s sessions, the ad hoc acoustics painted the proceedings with a raw, warehouse ambience—what we call „Garage Jazz.”
This remastered digital edition includes the complete session recording of „Cluster of Galaxies,” as well as a previously unreleased bonus track from the 1961 session, an after-hours quartet cooker titled „Chicago, Southside.”
Felvételek:
1. Cluster Of Galaxies
2. Ankh
3. Solar Drums
4. The Outer Heavens
5. Infinity Of The Universe
6. Lights On A Satellite
7. Kosmos In Blue
8. Chicago Southside
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