Album

Space Is The Place

Sun Ra

1973 · Jazz

6 collectors on Gatefold own this

Space Is The Place by Sun Ra

Space Is The Place is a Jazz album by Sun Ra, originally released in 1973. On Gatefold: 30 pressings tracked, owned by 6 collectors.

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Review by Stephen Cook Space Is the Place provides an excellent introduction to Sun Ra's vast and free-form jazz catalog. Typical of many Sun Ra recording, the program is varied; earthbound song, like the swing number "Images" and Egyptian exotica piece "Discipline," fit right in with more space-age cut, like the tumultuous "Sea of Sounds" and the humorous "Rocket Number Nine." Sun Ra fuses many of these styles on the sprawling title cut, as interlocking harmonie, African percussion, manic synthesizer line, and joyous ensemble blowing all jell into some sort of church revival of the cosmo. Throughout the recording, Sun Ra displays his typically wide-ranging talents on space organ and piano, reed players John Gilmore and Marshall Allen contribute incisive and intense solo, and June Tyson masterfully leads the Space Ethnic Voices on dreamy vocal flight. This is a fine recording and a must for Sun Ra fan. .

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Tracklist

  1. 1Space Is the Place21:14
  2. 2Images6:16
  3. 3Discipline4:52
  4. 4Sea of Sounds7:41
  5. 5Rocket Number Nine2:54

Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Avant-Garde & Free Jazz
  • raw
  • spiritual
  • spacey

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6 collectors on Gatefold own this · 30 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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