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SunRa

Friday 15 June 2007 22:30-23:30 (Radio 3)

Brian Morton joins Alyn Shipton to select the best from the discography of bandleader, keyboard player and extra-terrestrial, Sun Ra.
Overall recommendation Jazz In Silhouette (Evidence)

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

DISC 1
Title Space is the Place / We Travel The Spaceways
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Live at Praxis 84
Label Leo
Number GY 5/6 CD 1 Track 7
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb, voc); Ronnie Brown (t); Marshall Allen, Eloe Omoe, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, James Jacson (reeds); Rollo Redford (b); Don Mamford (d); Salah Rageb (perc). Orpheus Theatre, Athens, 27 Feb 1984

DISC 2
Title Queer Notions
Artist Fletcher Henderson
Composer Coleman Hawkins
Album Memorable Recordings
Label Topaz Number 1035 Track 5
Personnel: Russell Smith, Bobby Stark, Red Allen, t; Sandy Williams, Dicky Wells, tb; Russell Procope, Hilton Jefferson, Coleman Hawkins, reeds; Horace Henderson, p; Bernard Addison, g; John Kirby, b; Walter Johnson, d. Rec: 18 Aug 1933

DISC 3
Title Queer Notions
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Coleman Hawkins
Album Springtime In Chicago
Label Leo Number GY 24/27 CD 1 Track 8
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Michael Ray, Eddie Gale, Walter Miller (t); Marshall Allen, Eloe Omoe, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, James Jacson (reeds); Damon Choice (vib); Dale Williams (bg); Luqman Ali (d); Atakatune (perc). Chicago, 25 Sep 1978

DISC 4
Title Honeysuckle Rose
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Waller / Razaf
Album St Louis Blues
Label IAI
Number 123858-2 Track 4
Personnel: Sun Ra solo piano. 3 July 1977

DISC 5
Title Call For All Demons
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Sun Song
Label Delmark
Number DD411 Track 2
Personnel: Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Art Hoyle, Dave Young (t); Julian Priester (tb); James Scales, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick(reeds); Wilber Green (elb); Richard Evans (b); Robert Barry (d); Jim Herndon (timp). Chicago 1957

DISC 6
Title El is a Sound of Joy
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Sound of Joy
Label Delmark Number DD 414 Track 1
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Art Hoyle, Dave Young (t); Julian Priester (tb); Charles Davis, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick(reeds); Victor Sproles (b); William Cochrane (d); Jim Herndon (timp). Chicago November 1957

DISC 7
Title Saturn
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Jazz In Silhouette
Label Evidence
Number ECD 22012-2 Track 2
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Hobart Dotson (t); Julian Priester (tb); James Spaulding, Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick, Charles Davis (reeds); Ronnie Boykins (b); William Cochrane (d); Jim Herndon (timp). Chicago 1958

DISC 8
Title Magic City
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Magic City
Label Evidence
Number ECD 22069 Track 1 
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Walter Miller (t); Ali Hassan (tb); Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick, Robert Cummings (reeds); Ronnie Boykins (b); Roger Blank (d); James Jacson (perc). NYC 24 Sept 1965

DISC 9
Title Of Heavenly Things
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1
Label ESP
Number 1014 Track 5
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb); Chris Capers (t); Teddy Nance (tb); Bernard Pettaway (btb); Marshal Allen, Danny Davis, John Gilmore, Pat Patrick(reeds/percussion); Ronnie Boykins (b); Jimhmi Johnson (perc); Robert Cummings (bcl / woodblock). NYC 20 April 1965

DISC 10
Title Satin Doll
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Ellington / Strayhorn
Album Live at Praxis '84
Label Leo
Number GY 5/6 CD 2 Track 4
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb, voc); Ronnie Brown (t); Marshall Allen, Eloe Omoe, John Gilmore, Danny Ray Thompson, James Jacson (reeds); Rollo Redford (b); Don Mamford (d); Salah Rageb (perc). Orpheus Theatre, Athens, 27 Feb 1984

DISC 11
Title Zip a Dee Doo Dah
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Allie / Wrubel / Gilbert
Album Second Star To The Right
Label Leo
Number LR 230 Track 5
Personnel: Sun Ra (kb, voc); June Tyson, (voc/vln); Michael Ray (t); Julian Priester, Tyrone Hill (tb); Marshall Allen, Eloe Omoe, Noel Scott, James Jackson (reeds); Bruce Edwards (g); Arthur Junie Booth(elb); Earl Buster Smith (d); Nelson Nascimento Santos (perc). 29 April 1989 Ulrichsberg.

DISC 12
Title Blues at Midnight
Artist Sun Ra
Composer Sun Ra
Album Jazz In Silhouette
Label Evidence
Number 220122 Track 8
Personnel / date as for Saturn.

Overall recommendation Jazz In Silhouette (Evidence)




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