The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Box Set (2010) Re-up

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The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Box Set (2010)
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Together for the first time, ESP-Disk’ is proud to present all three volumes of “The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra” in a gorgeous digipack fold out box set. Originally released as two volumes in 1966, and with a third volume uncovered in 2005, the landmark sessions recorded by Richard Alderson on April 20th and November 16, 1965, have been hailed as a “…masterpiece of free jazz”. To further delve into the Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra and his Orkestra, each enhanced disc in the set contains archival photos, critical writings and historical videos including the 18 minute documentary Sun Ra “Spaceways”.

Sun Ra:

Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman "Sunny" Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of earthly and interplanetary music, most notably with his fervently loyal Arkestra. (Many great musicians passed through the Arkestra over the years, including reedman Pharoah Sanders, trombonist Julian Priester, and violinist Billy Bang. Most notable and long-tenured were the criminally underrated John Gilmore on tenor sax and Marshall Allen on alto). Mr. Blount, or Mr. Ra, or Mr. Mystery (as he was sometimes styled in later years) first appeared on the scene as a pianist with Fletcher Henderson's band, and to the end of his life Ra retained an affinity, respect, and genius for big band music in the style of Henderson and his contemporaries, with Sun's own extra-galactic twists. Some of his brilliant output in this vein has now become widely available for the first time from Evidence records. At the same time he furiously and indignantly claimed to have originated the Free Jazz that was made popular - or at least famous - by others in the Sixties, and the recorded evidence shows that he has a case. By the Eighties he was playing vintage Fletcher Henderson and Coleman Hawkins stomps alongside his own hyper-avant extraterrestrial creations, vividly illustrating the collective improvisation link between "Dixieland" and "Free jazz" so often claimed by free players (notably Ornette Coleman).

Out of disgust for the commercial scene Sun Ra also created his own record company, Saturn, through which he released a series of all-time masterpieces which were harder to find in his own day than they are now. Saturn releases were hard-to-find (unless one had the luck to attend a Sun Ra concert, where they were available at intermissions), but the Evidence reissues of many of the best of them are in every record store worthy of the name. Supersonic Jazz, Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth, Jazz in Silhouette, and Interstellar Low Ways are just a few of the high-water marks of jazz that Ra created. No one who is serious about finding good music should miss them. Oddly enough (if anything can be odd in the career of a space-alien bandleader), he also released a series of singles ranging stylistically from straight doo-wop to relentless stardust (not the Hoagy Carmichael kind). Later releases do not display the tightness and cohesion of the Evidence reissues, but the later Arkestras captured on Black Saint and Leo are capable of fury, tenderness, and persistent virtuosity.

Because he insisted that he was a Saturnian, and developed an elaborate cosmology and myth-system with considerable spiritual and political implications, Sun Ra was often dismissed as a clown. For some listeners it was enough to see him decked out in his extraterrestrial regalia to call him a con man and move on. Even the most cursory hearing of the music demonstrates that such dismissals were and are patently unfair. Behind Ra's mythology were a good number of sound and sensible ideas; more importantly, he was a master musician who left a magnificent body of work. His influence as an arranger and a leader cannot be underestimated, and is ignored by musicians only at their peril.

Fans of "straight-ahead" jazz should sample Sun Ra's Evidence reissues. Freer aficionados should give the Black Saints and Leos a listen. Both groups will be surprised, even stunned. But if they have ears, they will in no way be disappointed.


~ Robert Spencer, AllAboutJazz

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Box Set (2010):


Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. I:

1. Heliocentric
2. Outer Nothingness
3. Other Worlds
4. The Cosmos
5. Oh Heavenly Things
6. Nebulae
7. Dancing in the Sun

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Heliocentric Worlds, Vol. II:

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1. Intercosmosis
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Spaceways - Video:





Personnel:

Pat Patrick: baritone, percussion
John Gilmore: tenor, tympani
Marshall Allen: picolo, alto, bells, spiral cymbal
Ronnie Boykins: bass
Teddy Nance: trombone
Jimhmi Johnson: percussion, tympani
Robert Cummings: bass clarinet, wood blocks
Chris Capers: trumpet
Bernard Pettaway: bass trombone
Danny Davis: alto flute
Sun Ra: bass marimba, electronic celeste, piano, tympani, clavoline, tuned bongos
Walter Miller: trumpet
Ronnie Boykins: bass
Roger Blank: drums, percussion
* * *

All thanks go to the original releaser … / Special thanks to bnepal

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