{"id":27264,"date":"2025-03-24T06:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T06:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27264"},"modified":"2025-03-24T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T06:50:44","slug":"music-four-classic-albums-plus-bonus-singles-sun-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27264","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Four Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles, Sun Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"894\" height=\"805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5630-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5630-1.jpg 894w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5630-1-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_5630-1-768x692.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_08_four-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27140\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_08_four-1-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/stars_08_four-1-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been getting into Sun Ra and his Arkestra quite seriously recently. For someone like me, working with very limited means, sets like this are an absolute godsend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we get here is a collection of four early Sun Ra\/Arkestra albums, plus a CD full of early singles, from Ra\u2019s prolific Saturn Records output,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The albums are: <em>Jazz by Sun Ra<\/em> (1956), <em>Supersonic Jazz<\/em> (1956), and <em>Jazz In Silhouette<\/em> (1959), and <em>The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra<\/em> (1961). These four albums are spread over discs one to three. And then on disc four we have 18 tracks issued as singles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These latter range from blues, rock n\u2019 roll to doo-wop, novelty tunes (Christmas themed, etc.) and Arkestral jazz! Quite a range. This stuff is where they get closest &#8211; in my view &#8211; to what one critic described as being or sounding like an \u2018intergalactic ice cream van\u2019!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been getting into Sun Ra and his Arkestra quite seriously recently. For someone like me, working with very limited means, sets like this are an absolute godsend. What we get here is a collection of four early Sun Ra\/Arkestra albums, plus a CD full of early singles, from Ra\u2019s prolific Saturn Records output, The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Four Classic Albums Plus Bonus Singles, Sun Ra&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-75K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27265,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions\/27265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}