The song, Adventure-Equation by the late jazz keyboardist, Sun Ra & His Arkestra (ark and orchestra merged into one word) band; from off the album, Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy, originally recorded in 1963 but not released until four years later. For those not familiar with Sun Ra, he was born as Herman Poole Blount on May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, AL - USA. He was a prolific yet very controversial jazz musician who was best known for his cosmic philosophy, flamboyant concert performances, lyrical poetry and founding of the Afro-futurism movement, as well as his mastery of various keyboard instruments (piano, electric piano, harpsichord, organ, clavichord, clavinet, celesta, mellotron, Moog synthesizer, etc.) and endless number of more than 100 studio and live recordings which spans nearly fourty years from his 1956 debut, Jazz By Sun Ra (also titled Sun Song) to his 1993 final project, Pleiades. Sun Ra delved throughout almost the entire history of American jazz music, from bigband and swing-era music to ragtime and New Orleans jazz, to bebop and hard bop, to post-bop and avant-garde, to free jazz and jazz fusion, to experimental jazz, and finally to 70s soul-jazz and jazz-funk; not to mention also being a pioneer of electronic music and space music. Sun Ra was very versatile and diverse, and often integrated Latin, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Ancient Egyptian, traditional African (especially of West and Central Africa, and the Nile Valley), East/South Indian and aboriginal elements among other world ethnic/cultural influences into his recordings and live performances. Sun Ras musical themes always spoke of and expressed things ancient, unknown, potential, impossible, spiritual, and mysterious; and he was very heavily inspired by the Black Power Movement, Ancient Egyptology & all other archaic civilizations, Eastern philosophy, metaphysics, unsolved mysteries, astronomy/cosmology & space, Africa & its peoples and cultures, nature/ecology, futuristic visions, and his personal beliefs in other space-time dimensions. Sun Ra passed away on May 30, 1993 at age 79 due to pneumonia. This song here is one of several songs by him and his Arkestra ensemble on which he features traditional African percussion, including log drums. It is over eight minutes and thirty seconds long. All the credited musician personnel on this track includes Sun Ra himself on the Hammond B-3 electric organ with Arkestra members, Marshall Allen on astro space drums, John Gilmore on bass clarinet and sky drums, James Jacson on West African log drums, and Ronnie Boykins on bass; reverb. Hope everyone finds this tune a great and exciting track to listen to, and you all may want to listen to this through headphones or earphones just to really feel the power of the music and hear the mysterious echoing of the organ, and the thundering bass-toned effects in the African drums and percussion featured on the song. :D (y)
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 05:47:04 +0000
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