Space Is the Place (Sun Ra album)
Space Is The Place | ||||
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Studio album by Sun Ra | ||||
Released | 1973 | |||
Recorded | October 19–20, 1972 | |||
Studio | Streeterville Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |||
Genre | Avant-garde jazz | |||
Length | 42:51 | |||
Label | Blue Thumb | |||
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Space Is the Place is a studio album by Sun Ra. It was originally released on the Blue Thumb label in 1973. In 1998, it was reissued by Impulse! Records.
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
Stephen Cook of AllMusic commented that "Space Is the Place provides an excellent introduction to Sun Ra's vast and free-form jazz catalog."[1] He called it "a fine recording and a must for Sun Ra fans."[1] Stevie Chick of BBC described the album's title track as "Sun Ra's ultimate anthem, espousing the fusion of science fiction and ancient myth with the panoply of jazz that would seduce Sun Ra fans on rock's innovative vanguard, the likes of the MC5, Sonic Youth and Primal Scream."[3]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Sun Ra
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Space Is the Place" | 21:14 |
2. | "Images" | 6:15 |
3. | "Discipline" | 4:50 |
4. | "Sea of Sounds" | 7:42 |
5. | "Rocket Number Nine" | 2:50 |
Total length: | 42:51 |
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra
- Sun Ra – Farfisa organ (1, 3, 4, 5), piano (2), arrangement
- Akh Tal Ebah – vocals (1), trumpet (2), flugelhorn (4)
- Kwame Hadi (Lamont McClamb) – trumpet (2, 4)
- Marshall Allen – flute (3), alto saxophone (4)
- Danny Davis – flute (3), alto saxophone (4)
- John Gilmore – vocals (1, 5), tenor saxophone (2, 3, 4)
- Danny Thompson – baritone saxophone (1), flute (3), vocals (5)
- Eloe Omoe – bass clarinet (1, 5), flute (3)
- Pat Patrick – bass guitar (1, 2), baritone saxophone (4), vocals (5)
- Lex Humphries – drums (4)
- Atakatun (Stanley Morgan) – percussion (4)
- Odun (Russel Branch) – percussion (4)
Space Ethnic Voices
- June Tyson – vocals (1, 5)
- Ruth Wright – vocals (1, 5)
- Cheryl Banks – vocals (1, 5)
- Judith Holton – vocals (1, 5)
Technical
- Alton Abraham – production
- Ed Michel – production
- Baker Bigsby – engineering
- Steve Skinder – engineering assistance
- Jim Dolan – engineering assistance
- Mitch Hennes – engineering assistance
- Preston Wakeland – engineering assistance
- Dominic Lumetta – engineering assistance
- Jim Newman – photography (Impulse! Records edition)
- Chuck Stewart – photography (Impulse! Records edition)
- Hollis King – art direction (Impulse! Records edition)
- Señora Brown – graphic design (Impulse! Records edition)
References
- ^ a b c Cook, Stephen. "Space Is the Place - Sun Ra". AllMusic. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1358. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Chick, Stevie (2012). "Sun Ra Space Is the Place Review". BBC. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
External links
- Space Is the Place at Discogs (list of releases)
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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