Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra [Ltd. Edition 2001]

Although Sun Ra had only been recording professionally for five years, The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (1962) marks the avant-garde pianist and bandleader's 15th appearance on a long-player. It's also one of the very first to have been documented after Sun Ra and The Solar Myth Science/Astro Infinity Arkestra relocated from Chicago to New York City. The compact compositions and intensely swinging arrangements provide a typically nimble backdrop for the singular, if not still somewhat futuristic sounds of Ra's seminal post-bop sides. Read More