Nothing Is
1970 live album by Sun Ra
Nothing Is | ||||
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Live album by Sun Ra | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | May 1966 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 39:42 (original release) | |||
Label | ESP-Disk | |||
Sun Ra chronology | ||||
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Nothing Is is a live album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra, recorded in 1966 and released on the ESP-Disk label in 1970.[1] In 2010 ESP-Disk released an expanded 2CD edition, restoring the full concert on disc one and adding part of the second set and some tracks from the sound check on disc two.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer stated: "Sun Ra and his Arkestra issued only a handful of titles on the groundbreaking indie ESP-Disk label. Each title respectively contains some of their most expressive musical statements to date".[2]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10[4] |
Track listing
- All compositions by Sun Ra
12" Vinyl
Side A:
- "Dancing Shadows" - 9:50
- "Imagination" - 1:53
- "Exotic Forest" - 9:50
Side B:
- "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" - 1:58
- "Shadow World" - 13:48
- "Theme of the Stargazers" - 0:40
- "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" - 1:42
- "Next Stop Mars" - 0:38
- Track lengths on cover differ significantly from actual playing times given above.
- This version is also available on CD (without the bonus tracks below) as ZYX-Music / ESP 1045-2.
CD Bonus Tracks
- "Velvet" - 7:20
- "Outer Nothingness" - 15:43
- "We Travel the Spaceways" - 1:30
- Recorded live on tour of New York state colleges in March 1966.
2CD Deluxe Edition
"Disc One" (66/5/18 - first set)
- "Sun Ra And HIs Band From Outer Space" - 14:02
- "The Shadow World" - 4:40
- "Interpolation" - 2:18
- "The Satellites Are Spinning" - 1:17
- "Advice To Medics" - 2:50
- "Velvet" - 8:16
- "Space Aura" - 10:26
- "The Exotic Forest" - 9:43
- "Theme Of The Stargazers" - 1:52
- "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" - 2:24
- "Dancing Shadows" - 9:45
- "Imagination" - 0:40
- "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" - 1:12
- "Next Stop Mars" - 0:41
"Disc Two" (66/5/18 - partial second set and sound check)
- "The Satellites Are Spinning" - 9:08
- "Velvet" - 7:10
- "Interplanetary Chaos" - 4:35
- "Theme Of The Stargazers" - 1:30
- "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" - 11:16
- "We Travel The Spaceways" - 1:42
- "Nothing Is" - 6:13
- "It Is Eternal" - 12:37
- "State Street" - 8:21
- The Exotic Forest" - 4:32
Personnel
- Sun Ra - piano, clavioline
- Ali Hassan, Teddy Nance - trombone
- Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, piccolo, oboe
- John Gilmore - tenor saxophone
- Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone, flute
- Robert Cummings - bass clarinet
- James Jacson - flute, log drums
- Ronnie Boykins - bass, tuba
- Clifford Jarvis, Roger Blank, Jimmy Johnson - drum
- Carl S. Malone, Nimrod Hunt - sun horn, gong
References
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods