Horizon (Sun Ra album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Horizon
Type = Live album
Artist = Sun Ra and his Arkestra


Released = 1972
Recorded = December 17, 1971
Genre = Free Jazz
Length =
Label = El Saturn Records / Thoth Intergalactic
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Nidhamu"
(1972)
This album = "Horizon"
(1972)
Next album = "Space is the Place"
(1972)

"Horizon" is a recording by the jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra, forming part of the documentation of their first visit to Egypt.

It was recorded at the Ballon Theatre, Cairo. [cite book | last=Szwed|first=John F| title=Space is the Place: The life and times of Sun Ra | publisher=Pantheon| date=1997|isbn=0862417228|pages=435]

In various editions, the record has sometimes been known by the other title of "Starwatchers" [cite web| accessdate = 2008-08-17|title=Sun Ra' discography |url = http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/horizon.html]

Track listing

#"Starwatchers/Theme of the Stargazers"
#"Discipline 2"
#"Shadow World"
#"Third Planet"
#"Space is the Place"
#"Horizon"
#"Discipline 8"

Personnel

*John Gilmore - tenor saxophone
*Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute
*Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
*Kwame Hadi - trumpet, conga drums
*Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone
*Elo Omoe - bass clarinet
*Tommy Hunter - percussion
*Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute
*June Tyson - vocal
*Larry Narthington - alto saxophone, conga drum
*Lex Humphries - percussion
*Clifford Jarvis - percussion
*Hakim Rahim - alto saxophone, flute
*Sun Ra - organ, Mini Moog, piano

*Tam Fiofori - Engineer

References