Cosmos (Sun Ra album) explained

Cosmos
Type:Album
Artist:Sun Ra
Cover:Cosmos (Sun Ra album).jpg
Released:1976
Recorded:August 1976
Studio Hautefeuille, Paris
Genre:Free jazz
Length:37:56
Label:Cobra
COB 37001
Chronology:Sun Ra
Prev Title:Live at Montreux
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:A Quiet Place in the Universe
Next Year:1977

Cosmos is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in France in 1976 and originally released on the French Cobra label in Europe and on Inner City Records in the US.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "Sun Ra provided some stunning moments on the Rocksichord, while leading The Arkestra through stomping full-band cuts of atmospheric or alternately hard bop compositions, peeling off various saxophonists for skittering, screaming, at times spacey dialogues".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

  1. "The Mystery of Two" - 5:51
  2. "Interstellar Low Ways" - 5:23
  3. "Neo Project #2" - 5:04
  4. "Cosmos" - 2:58
  5. "Moonship Journey" - 6:17
  6. "Journey Among the Stars" - 5:13
  7. "Jazz from an Unknown Planet" - 7:10

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=81 Sun Ra discography
  2. Wynn, R., Allmusic Review accessed July 4, 2014