Sun Ra and His Arkestra New Horizons
Label: Fresh Sound Records
CD ReleaseD : 2008
Format : [email protected] 320
Chicago pianist Sun Ra emerged as a leader on the jazz scene early in 1956, when he assembled a group of neo-boppers that contributed to the original and exciting jazz sound offered by his new Sun Ra Arkestra, a medium-sized group that swung like a giant locomotive, an effect primarily due to an interesting use of two basses playing simultaneously.
They featured the power of big band ensemble along with the excitement of combo blowing by fine soloists, among them the driving tenor John Gilmore, trombonist Julian Priester, and Hoyle’s well-directed trumpet. They played with swinging warmth and directness of emotion, but despite all this it as always Sun Ra’s musical personality which dominated the performances. He was a bandleader who dealt with the cosmos and its future and it’s worth hearing the new horizons of the first Sun Ra Arkestra. After all, they were busily turning the jazz cosmos itself upsidedown - and that is no small feat.
Tracklist:
Transition Recordings -
1. Brainville 04:13
2. Call For All Demons 05:13
3. Transition 03:39
4. Possession 04:56
5. Street Named Hell 03:36
6. Lullaby For Realville 04:40
7. Future 02:52
8. Swing A Little Taste 04:22
9. New Horizons 03:04
10. Fall Off The Log 03:56
11. Sun Song 03:38
Sun Ra - Piano, Hammond B-3 Organ (track 11)
Art Hoyle - Trumpet
Dave Young – Trumpet
Julian Priester - Trombone
James Scales - Alto Sax
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Pat Patrick - Baritone Sax
Richard Evans - Bass
Wilburn Green - Electric Bass
Robert Barry - Drums
Jim Herndon - Tympani
Recorded Chicago, July 12, 1956
Saturn Recordings
12. Reflections In Blue 05:55
13. Two Tones 03:36
14. El Viktor 02:28
15. Saturn 03:54
Sun Ra – Piano, Electric Piano (track 12)
Art Hoyle - Trumpet
Dave Young – Trumpet
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Charles Davis – Baritone Sax
Pat Patrick – Baritone Sax
Victor Sproles – Bass
Wilburn Green - Electric Bass
William Cochran – Drums
Jim Herndon - Tympani
Recorded Chicago, late 1956
16. Kingdom Of Not 05:32
Sun Ra – Piano
Art Hoyle - Trumpet
Pat Patrick – Alto Sax
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Charles Davis – Baritone Sax
Victor Sproles – Bass
William Cochran – Drums
Jim Herndon – Tympani, Percusion
Recorded Chicago, late 1956
17. Blues At Midnight 06:30
Sun Ra – Piano
Art Hoyle - Trumpet
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Victor Sproles – Bass
William Cochran – Drums
Recorded Chicago, late 1956
18. Super Blonde 02:36
19. Sof Talk 02:42
Sun Ra – Piano
Julian Priester - Trombone
James Scales - Alto Sax
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Pat Patrick – Baritone Sax
Wilburn Green - Electric Bass
Bob Barry – Drums
Recorded Chicago, early 1956
Tracks 1-7, 9-11 from the Translation album Jazz by Sun Ra (TRLP 10)
Track 8 from the Translation album Jazz in Transistion (TRLP 30)
Tracks 12- 15 from the Saturn album Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth (LP 207)
Tracks 16- 19 from the Saturn album Sun Ra Super Sonic Jazz (LP 02160
