Fate in a Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out
Fate in a Pleasant Mood/When Sun Comes Out
ASIN: B0000014KJ
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Before Sun Ra careened into the jazz avant-garde with his banks of electrickeyboards and highwire group improvisations, he made recordings like *Fatein a Pleasant Mood.* Rich with Ra's persistent astro-mythology, *Fate* is equally rich with an immersion in the history of big band music. The charts played on Fate are as orchestrally complex as anything Duke Ellington wrote, yet they still maintain a clear position on the cusp of the avant-garde. More than anything, changes are the order on Fate, fast runs across difficult melody statements, on-the-fly changes in harmonic aims and rhythmic jumps that illuminate just how completely Sun Ra understood the overlap of jazz traditions as the 1960s approached. --Andrew Bartlett
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Sun Ra Manufacturer: Evidence ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Avant Garde & Free Jazz
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ASIN: B0000014KJ Release Date: 1993-11-25 |
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Before Sun Ra careened into the jazz avant-garde with his banks of electrickeyboards and highwire group improvisations, he made recordings like *Fatein a Pleasant Mood.* Rich with Ra's persistent astro-mythology, *Fate* is equally rich with an immersion in the history of big band music. The charts played on Fate are as orchestrally complex as anything Duke Ellington wrote, yet they still maintain a clear position on the cusp of the avant-garde. More than anything, changes are the order on Fate, fast runs across difficult melody statements, on-the-fly changes in harmonic aims and rhythmic jumps that illuminate just how completely Sun Ra understood the overlap of jazz traditions as the 1960s approached. --Andrew BartlettCustomer Reviews:
Start with this one........2006-08-06
Beautiful, Sometimes Chaotic.......2000-10-23
"When Sun Comes Out" finds Ra working with a wilder band, one that played something akin to 1960's "free jazz", which typically became squawking exercises in audience disenfranchisement intended to reflect or augment the African-American experience. Here, the sound is given a more cosmological context and cut with an exotic ambience. Although I am not that keen on the sound the band lays down here, I like the format they've fit it into and like some of the tracks. Pat Patrick among other players goes really wild on here (Pat played baritone sax). This serves as a good entry point into ra's mid-to-late 60's direction.
A lot of music here- experimental, but accessible.......2000-08-29
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