Jazz by Sun Ra

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Jazz By Sun Ra
Jazz By Sun Ra cover
Delmark pressing
re-release under the title Sun Song
Studio album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra
Released 1957
Recorded Universal Recording Studio
July 12, 1956
Genre Jazz
Label Transition Records
Professional reviews
Sun Ra and his Arkestra chronology
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Jazz By Sun Ra (later titled Sun Song) is the debut album to be released by Sun Ra. [1]The record label for the first pressing says "07-12-56", presumably when it was recorded.[2] The LP originally appeared on Tom Wilson's short-lived Transition Records. In the mid-1960s it was licenced to Delmark Records, finally being reissued in 1967.

Contents

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[edit] 12" vinyl version

Side A

  1. "Brainville" (Ra) - 4:29
  2. "Call for all Demons" (Ra) - 4:30
  3. "Transition" (Ra) - 3:40
  4. "Possession" (Revel) - 5:00
  5. "Street Named Hell" (Ra) - 3:55

Side B

  1. "Lullaby for Realville" (Evans) - 4:40
  2. "Future" (Ra) - 3:15
  3. "New Horizons" (Ra) - 3:05
  4. "Fall off the Log" - Ra) (4:00
  5. "Sun Song" (Ra) - 3:40

[edit] Personnel

  • Ra-p, Hammond B-3 org; Art Hoyle-tp, bells, Dave Young-tp, Julian Priester-tb, chimes, James Scales-as, John Gilmore-ts, woodblocks, Pat Patrick-bs, bells, Richard Evans-b, Wilburn Green-eb, tamourine, Robert Barr-d, bells, Jim Herndon-tympani, timbales. Universal Studios, Chicago, 7/12/56.
  • [Personnel and dates from Delmark album jacket, additional perc credits from Raben and Buzelin, presumably from Transition liner. According to Hoyle, Evans was the regular bassist when he joined but was soon replaced by Wilburn Green; Evans may have come back on board for this recording session]

[edit] Pressings

  • Transition TRLP J-10 (1957)
  • Delmark DL-411 (1967)
  • Sonet SLP23 (Sweden)
  • Delmark DD-411 (1991, CD)

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