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Released
  
1975

Release date
  
1975

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Length
  
26:41

Producer
  
Alton Abraham

Genre
  
Free jazz

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Recorded
  
1973 El Saturn Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois

Pathways to Unknown Worlds (1973)
  
Outer Space Employment Agency (1973)

Artists
  
Sun Ra, The Sun Ra Arkestra

Similar
  
The Sun Ra Arkestra albums, Free jazz albums, Other albums

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Pathways to Unknown Worlds is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Chicago in 1973 and originally released on his Saturn label and rereleased on the ABC/Impulse! label in 1975.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4 stars stating "the three free jazz instrumental improvisations are in many respects quite similar to the laissez-faire sonic free for alls that had become synonymous with Ra's concurrent Arkestra(s)".

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

Side One:

  1. "Pathways to Unknown Worlds" - 12:12

Side Two:

  1. "Extension Out" - 7:31
  2. "Cosmo-Media" - 6:58

Personnel

  • Sun Ra - keyboards
  • Akh Tal Ebah, Lamont McClamb - trumpet
  • Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
  • Danny Davis - alto saxophone
  • John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, percussion
  • Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone
  • Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet
  • Ronnie Boykins, Bill Davis - bass
  • Clifford Jarvis - drums
  • Russell Branch - percussion
  • Eugene Brennan - congas
  • Stanley Morgan - percussion, congas

    • Songs

    1Pathways To Unknown Worlds12:12
    2Extension Out7:31
    3Cosmo-Media6:58

    References

    Pathways to Unknown Worlds Wikipedia
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