Space Is the Place (album)

Space Is The Place
Studio album by Sun Ra
Released	1973
Recorded	Oct 1972
Genre	Avant-garde jazz
Length	42:51
Label	Blue Thumb Records
Producer	Alton Abraham and Ed Michel
Sun Ra chronology
Live in Egypt (1971) Space Is The Place (1973) Pathways to Unknown Worlds (1973)

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Space Is the Place is a jazz album by Sun Ra. It was released in 1973. This album was originally issued in LP format on the ABC Records label, Blue Thumb Records; in the CD era it was issued with the Impulse! label.^[2]

Track listing

(all written and arranged by Sun Ra)

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

Recording

The album was recorded on October 19 and 20, 1972 at Streeterville Recording studio in Chicago.

Personnel

Sun Ra and his Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra:

• Sun Ra - Piano (2), Farfisa Professional = space organ (1,3,4,5)
• Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet (2), flugelhorn (4), vocal (1)
• Kwame Hadi (Lamont McClamb - trumpet (2,4)
• Marshall Allen - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
• Danny Davis - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
• John Gilmore - tenor saxophone (2,3,4), vocal (1,5)
• Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone (1), flute (3), vocal (5)
• Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet (1,5), flute (3)
• Pat Patrick - electric bass (1,2), baritone saxophone (4), vocal (5)
• Lex Humphries - drums (4)
• Atakatun (Stanley Morgan) and Odun (Russel Branch) - percussion (4)

("as all marines are riflemen, all members of the Arkestra are percussionists")

Space Ethnic Voices:

• June Tyson, Ruth Wright, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton (1,5)

Producers: Alton Abraham and Ed Michel

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