Super-Sonic Jazz (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog Rock

Super-Sonic Jazz (Vinyl LP) 60s 70s Psych Prog RockRecorded in 1956, but released in 1957, Supersonic Jazz is arguably the first long playing album by Sun Ra and His Arkestra on his Saturn label. However, it was not recorded as a debut. Rather, the album was assembled from tapes recorded during a number of sessions at two Chicago studios (RCA Victor and Balkan), and several tracks had been released as singles before their inclusion on this album. (Sunny's first fully realized commercial album was

but thankfully he left some real musical gems with us before leaving this dimension

"I can't remember a worst time

the steel drum flecked eroticism of 'Reunion' and the subverted disco of Sunset

Bristol-hailing Emika

"We spent so much time imagining playing together in the process of recording

Opening with the transcendental Log Jam which spills into the huge

Thursday 30 June - marks 25 years since the release of The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land

Ron Carter

is a more restrained and spartan album compared to its lusher sounding predecessors

But this 1963 session is more than soul-jazz

his oak-aged

Madagascar harp