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Unity (Sun Ra album)

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Released
  
1978

Artist
  
The Sun Ra Arkestra

Label
  
Horo Records

Producer
  
Aldo Sinesio

Release date
  
1978

Genre
  
Free jazz

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Recorded
  
October 24 & 28, 1977Storyville, NYC

Unity(1977)
  
Piano Recital - Teatro La Fenice, Venezia(1977)

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

Unity is a live double album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Italian Horo label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars naming it "The Arkestra's best live album. Loaded with standards. Incredible musicianship".

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated

Side One:

  1. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) - 5:39
  2. "Lightnin'" (Duke Ellington) - 2:37
  3. "How Am I To Know?" (Jack King, Dorothy Parker) - 9:33
  4. "Lights" - 5:42

Side Two:

  1. "Yeah Man" (Fletcher Henderson) - 3:01
  2. "King Porter Stomp" (Jelly Roll Morton) - 4:04
  3. "Images" - 10:31
  4. "Penthouse Serenade" (Val Burton, Will Jason) - 4:10

Side Three:

  1. "Lady Bird/Half Nelson" (Tadd Dameron/Miles Davis) - 8:00
  2. "Halloween" - 6:02
  3. "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 6:00

Side Four:

  1. "The Satellites" - 7:30
  2. "Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams) - 9:37
  3. "Enlightment" (Hobart Dotson, Sun Ra) - 2:06

Personnel

  • Sun Ra - organ, Rocksichord
  • Ahmed Abdullah, Michael Ray - trumpet
  • Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet, vocals
  • Craig Harris, Charles Stephens - trombone
  • Vincent Chancey - French horn
  • Emmett McDonald - bass horn
  • Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, oboe, flute
  • Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute
  • John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, clarinet, percussion
  • Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute
  • Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, flute
  • James Jacson - flute, bassoon, percussion
  • Richard Williams - bass
  • Luqman Ali, Thomas Hunter - drums
  • Atakatune, Eddie Thomas - percussion
  • June Tyson - vocals

    • Songs

    1Yesterdays5:39
    2Lightnin'2:37
    3How Am I to Know?9:33

    References

    Unity (Sun Ra album) Wikipedia
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