Sun Ra - Jazz In Silhouette

NEW VINYL LP ON WAXTIME 2015

180 GRAM VINYL

Ra’s full-blown space explorations – on the bandstand rather than in rehearsal at the Arkestra’s communal home – took off in the early 1960s. As the 1950s progressed, there had been hints of the future – not least in the sleeve art for Jazz in Silhouette – but Ra’s musical aesthetic remained fundamentally swing. A minor masterpiece, the album comprises eight originals played by a ten-piece band which included deep-space Arkestra stalwarts-of-the-future, saxophonists John Gilmore, Pat Patrick and Marshall Allen (who has led the Arkestra since Ra’s death). In a Blindfold Test you would be excused for guessing the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, for which Ra had written arrangements in the late 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_in_Silhouette

Tracklist

A1 Enlightenment
A2 Saturn
A3 Velvet
A4 Ancient Aiethopia
B1 Hours After
B2 Horoscope
B3 Images
B4 Blues At Midnight
B5 Back In Your Own Backyard