6520. Sun Ra - Space is the Place

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From: Space is the Place; Year: 1973; Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz/Jazz Fusion/Funk
Felt like going way, way... way out there for today's song pick; couldn't go out much farther than the great Sun Ra. He has always reminded me a lot of Mingus, probably should be the other way around with Sun Ra being in the business long before Charles Mingus, but I heard and became a fan of Mingus quite a bit prior to hearing Ra for the first time.
Anyway, to most not accustomed to the freer forms of jazz this probably would be 21 minutes of disjointed music and odd sounds, but was, even in '73, a boundary-pushing, tip-of-the-spear artistic jazz. Whilst not everyone's cup o' tea, most who love experimental music would find definite interest here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
My song pick 6 years ago today: Howlin' Wolf - Forty-Four

My song pick 7 years ago today: Arlo - Stab the Unstoppable Hero

My song pick 8 years ago today: Wild Turkey - One Sole Survivor

My song pick 9 years ago today: Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here

My song pick 10 years ago today: The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It/See Me Feel Me

My song pick 11 years ago today: Chet Atkins - Funky Junk

My song pick 12 years ago today: The Steve Miller Band - Overdrive

My song pick 13 years ago today: The Doors - Light My Fire

My song pick 14 years ago today: Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds

My song pick 15 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Grace

My song pick 16 years ago today: John Denver - Season Suite: Summer

My song pick 17 years ago today: The Steve Miller Band - The Window
 
 

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