Name: Sun Song [Delmark]
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SKU: 201194
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Sun Song [Delmark]

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Personnel: Sun Ra (piano); James Scales (alto saxophone); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone); Art Hoyle, Dave Young (trumpet); Julian Priester (trombone); Richard Evans, Wilburn Green (bass); Robert Barry (drums); Jim Herndon (tympani).
Personnel: Sun Ra (piano, electric piano, organ); James Scales (alto saxophone); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone, percussion); Pat Patrick (baritone saxophone, bells); David Young , Arthur Hoyle (trumpet, bells); Dave Young (trumpet); Julian Priester (trombone, chimes); Wilburn Green (electric bass, bass guitar, tambourine); Robert Barry (drums, bells); Richard Evans (drums); James Herndon (timbales, timpani, bells); Jim Herndon (timpani, percussion).
Recording information: Universal Recording Studios (07/12/1956).
Editor: Stephen Fassett.
The late pianist/bandleader/composer Sun Ra was one of the earliest musicians to embrace the jazz avant-garde, and some credit him as being a point of origin for it. Be that it may, SUN SONG is one of the Ra's earliest and most accessible albums. Recorded in the mid-1950s and consisting mostly of Ra originals, SUN features a combination of Monk-like minimalism, pretty melodies, unusual harmonies and rhythms, and concise soloing. Not nearly as free-sounding as his post-1960 recordings, SUN SONG is highly recommended to those new to Sun Ra and even to modern/progressive jazz.