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Sun Ra - Jazz from Saturn! 1956-82
FromJazz Focus
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Length:
59 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) was a talented pianist and composer who played and arranged for one of Fletcher Henderson's last bands. He began collecting a company of musicians around him in the 1950's including tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, baritone saxist Pat Patrick, altoist Marshall Allan and others. They created a music that began as hard bop, moved through soul and then became something quite extraordinary! Here are examples (issued as singles on Ra's label Saturn) from all those periods
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Released:
Mar 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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