Somewhere Else (Sun Ra album) explained

Somewhere Else
Type:Album
Artist:Sun Ra
Cover:Somewhere Else (Sun Ra album).jpg
Released:1993
Recorded:December 1988 and November 1989
Genre:Free jazz
Length:61:14
Label:Rounder
Producer:John Snyder
Chronology:Sun Ra
Prev Title:Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
Prev Year:1988
Next Title:Blue Delight
Next Year:1989

Somewhere Else is a 1993 album by free jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra released on the Rounder label.[1] The album consists of tracks recorded in late 1989, at the same sessions which produced the albums Blue Delight and Purple Night, but it was not released until shortly before Sun Ra's death, over three years later.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "Due to the variety and very interesting personnel, plus many examples of the keyboardist/leader stretching himself, this somewhat obscure effort is easily recommended to Sun Ra collectors".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated. All arrangements by Sun Ra.

  1. "Priest" – 4:01
  2. "Discipline/Tall Trees in the Sun" – 8:26
  3. "'S Wonderful" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:32
  4. "Hole in the Sky" – 7:31
  5. "Somewhere Else Part 1" – 8:38
  6. "Somewhere Else Part 2" – 2:41
  7. "Stardust from Tomorrow" – 4:56
  8. "Love in Outer Space" – 12:01
  9. "Everything Is Space" – 3:57
  10. "Tristar" – 3:31

Recorded at Variety Recording Studios in New York in December 1988 (tracks 1 & 8–10) and at BMG Studios in New York City in November 1989 (tracks 2–7)

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html Sun Ra discography
  2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed January 12, 2012

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