Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded April 20

Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (1965)

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 album by the jazz musician Sun Ra. The back cover describes it as an "album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra".

The album is an example of the radical break which Sun Ra's music of that time had made with "previous notions of melody or harmony". Although heavily percussive, the music also dispenses with a continuous beat; instead Ra's music is reconstructed around "interweaving compositional and improvisatory creative principles with programmatic affects".

The album was originally released as The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, with a B/W sleeve designed by Ra himself. This was replaced with a new orange and red sleeve by Howard Bernstein & Baby Jerry - showing Sun Ra with the third eye - and the appendage Vol. 1 added when The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two was released in 1966.

The album was re-released on CD by ZYX-Music (ESP 1014-2) in the 1990s.

Gene Tyranny describes the album in his review as

The astonishing sessions that went light years beyond "free jazz" improvisation to create a music of deeply felt explosive and gentle gesture made from sound itself without reference to previous notions of melody or harmony.

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

12" Vinyl

Side A:

1. "Heliocentric" – 4:00
2. "Outer Nothingness" – 7:40
3. "Other Worlds" – 4:18

Side B:

1. "The Cosmos" – 7:20
2. "Of Heavenly Things" – 5:40
3. "Nebulae" – 3:16
4. "Dancing in the Sun" – 1:50

Recorded at Studio RLA, New York, April 20, 1965. Engineered by Richard L Alderson.

Musicians

• Sun Ra - Piano, Bass marimba, Electric Celeste, Timpani
• Chris Capers - Trumpet
• Teddy Nance - Trombone
• Bernard Pettaway - Bass Trombone
• Marshall Allen - Piccolo, Alto sax, Bells, Spiral Cymbal
• Danny Davis - Flute, Alto Sax
• Robert Cummings - Bass Clarinet, Woodblocks
• John Gilmore - Tenor Sax, Timpani
• Pat Patrick - Baritone Sax, Timpani
• Ronnie Boykins - Bass
• Jimhmi Johnson - Drums, Percussion, Timpani

Ed Thigpen - Out of the Storm (1966)

Out of the Storm is the debut album led by American drummer Ed Thigpen recorded in 1966 for the Verve label.

Track listing

All compositions by Ed Thigpen except as indicated

"Cielito Lindo" (C. Fernandez) - 4:41
"Cloud Break (Up Blues)" - 1:14
"Out of the Storm" - 7:27
"Theme from "Harper"" (Johnny Mandel) - 2:36
"Elbow and Mouth" (Kenny Burrell) - 6:14
"Heritage" - 5:15
"Struttin' With Some Barbecue" (Lil Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye) - 4:22

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on April 18 (tracks 3 & 4), April 19 (tracks 1, 6 & 7), and April 20 (tracks 2 & 5), 1966

Personnel

Ed Thigpen - drums, voice on "Heritage"
Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn, voice on "Heritage"
Herbie Hancock - piano
Kenny Burrell - guitar
Ron Carter - bass

Pharoah Sanders - Live (1981)

Pharoah Sanders Live... is a live album by American saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders, released on the Theresa label.

Track listing

All compositions by Pharoah Sanders except as indicated

"You Got to Have Freedom" – 14:17
"Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:52
"Blues for Santa Cruz" – 8:39
"Pharomba" – 13:26
"Doktor Pitt" – 21:34 Bonus track on CD reissue

Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at The Maiden Voyage, Los Angeles, from April 16–19, 1981. Tracks 3 & 4 recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, on April 20, 1981. Track 5 recorded at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, on April 12, 1981.

Personnel

Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone, vocals
John Hicks – piano
Walter Booker – bass
Idris Muhammad – drums

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