Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette - LP

2LP, Expanded Reissue

Enshrined in the Penguin Jazz Guide's Core Collection, this quintessential 1959 set captures Sun Ra's late-1950s Chicago Arkestra, showcasing the brilliant tenor sax of John Gilmore and introducing mainstays Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick and Ronnie Boykins. It marks a coda to the bandleader's bebop and hard-bop period, just as his interstellar vision began to transform the band and its music. This expanded edition adds the complete contemporaneous Sound Sun Pleasure LP, rare stereo mixes and previously unreleased bonus tracks.

Features

• Number of Discs: 2
• Includes the complete Sound Sun Pleasure LP, rare stereo mixes and bonus tracks

Track Listing

1. Enlightenment (Stereo)
2. Velvet
3. Ancient Aiethopia (Stereo)
4. 'Round Midnight
5. You Never Told Me That You Care
6. Hour of Parting
7. Back in Your Own Back Yard
8. I Could Have Danced All Night
9. State Street (Alternate, Previously Unreleased)
10. Blues from Saturn (Previously Unreleased)
11. Hours After (Single Version)
12. Great Balls of Fire (Single)
13. Horoscope (Stereo, Incomplete, Previously Unreleased)