Jazz By Sun Ra Vol.2

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Captured in Chicago during the same 1957 sessions as its companion piece, this recording finds Sun Ra and his Arkestra already straining at the limits of form and gravity. With an expanded 11 piece lineup including Dave Young, James Scales and Richard Davis, the music stretches into strange new territory where swing dissolves into cosmic suggestion. ‘El Is A Sound Of Joy’ and ‘Planet Earth’ radiate warmth and melodic poise, while ‘Ankh’ and ‘Saturn’ shimmer with the discipline and daring that would soon define the avant-garde. Heard today, these sessions feel astonishingly fresh, and it’s a glimpse of jazz learning to orbit, guided by Ra’s otherworldly precision and untethered imagination.