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Space Is the Place (album)

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Released
  
1973

Artist
  
Sun Ra

Label
  
Blue Thumb Records

Genre
  
Avant-garde jazz

Length
  
42:51

Release date
  
1973

Producer
  
Alton Abraham

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Recorded
  
Oct 19 & 20, 1972 at Streeterville Recording studio in Chicago

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Space Is The Place (1973)

Space Is The Place (1973)
  
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Similar
  
Sun Ra albums, Avant-garde jazz albums, Other albums

Space Is the Place is a jazz album by Sun Ra. It was released in 1973. This album was originally issued in LP format on the ABC Records label, Blue Thumb Records; in the CD era it was issued with the Impulse! label.

Contents

Sun ra space is the place


Track listing

(all written and arranged by Sun Ra)

  1. "Space is the Place" - 21:14
  2. "Images" - 6:15
  3. "Discipline" - 4:50
  4. "Sea of Sounds" - 7:42
  5. "Rocket Number Nine" - 2:50

Personnel

Sun Ra and his Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra:

  • Sun Ra - Piano (2), Farfisa Professional = space organ (1,3,4,5)
  • Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet (2), flugelhorn (4), vocal (1)
  • Kwame Hadi (Lamont McClamb - trumpet (2,4)
  • Marshall Allen - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
  • Danny Davis - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
  • John Gilmore - tenor saxophone (2,3,4), vocal (1,5)
  • Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone (1), flute (3), vocal (5)
  • Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet (1,5), flute (3)
  • Pat Patrick - electric bass (1,2), baritone saxophone (4), vocal (5)
  • Lex Humphries - drums (4)
  • Atakatun (Stanley Morgan) and Odun (Russel Branch) - percussion (4)

    • ("as all marines are riflemen, all members of the Arkestra are percussionists")

    Space Ethnic Voices:

  • June Tyson, Ruth Wright, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton (1,5)

    • Producers: Alton Abraham and Ed Michel

    Songs

    1Space Is the Place21:15
    2Images6:16
    3Discipline 334:53

    References

    Space Is the Place (album) Wikipedia
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