Name: Jazz in Silhouette
Brand: Sun Ra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

950726

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Colour

Blue

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

WAXTIME IN COLOR PRESS

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-06-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Proper

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

8436559469067

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Sun Ra

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Not Now

Sun Ra, born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, was an American Free-Jazz composer, pianist and band leader. He was a pioneer of free improvisation and modal jazz, as well as an early user of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Sun Ra's music innovations and visionary experiences set him apart as a true musical innovator. He formed the Sun Ra Arkestra in the 1950s and continued to compose and perform until his death in 1993.Born and raised in Alabama, Sun Ra showed exceptional talent as a pianist from a young age. By the age of 11, he could sight-read and compose music. As a teenager, he performed with local jazz and R&amp;B bands before taking on his first full-time musical job leading the Sonny Blount Orchestra. In the mid-1930s, Sun Ra had a transformative experience during deep meditation where he claimed to have been transported to Saturn by beings from outer space who tasked him with spreading peace through music.

Recorded in March 6, 1959 at El Saturn Studio in Chicago, Jazz In Silhouette is considered to be one of Sun Ra’s best albums from his Chicago period before veering off into “full-fledged explorations into the avantgarde” that characterises the recordings made in New York. An overlooked masterpiece. 

Jazz in Silhouette

Music GB

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