Space Is the Place (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Space Is The Place
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Sun Ra


Released = 1973
Recorded = Oct 1972
Genre = Jazz
Length = 42:51
Label = Blue Thumb Records
Producer = Alton Abraham and Ed Michel
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:s25m967ogep5 link]
Last album = "Live in Egypt"
1971
This album = "Space Is The Place"
1973
Next album = "Concert for the Comet Kohoutek"
1973

"Space is the Place" is a jazz album by Sun Ra. It was released in 1973. This album was originally issued in LP format on the ABC Records label, Blue Thumb Records; in the CD era it was issued with the Impulse! label. [http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sun_ra/space_is_the_place/]

Track listing

(all written and arranged by Sun Ra)
# "Space is the Place" - 21:14
# "Images" - 6:15
# "Discipline" - 4:50
# "Sea of Sounds" - 7:42
# "Rocket Number Nine" - 2:50

Recording

Recorded October 19 and 20, 1972 at Streeterville Recording studio, Chicago.

Personnel

Sun Ra and his Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra:
* Sun Ra - Piano (2), Farfisa Professional = space organ (1,3,4,5)
* Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet, (2), flugelhorn ((4), vocal (1)
* Kwame Hadi (Lamont McClamb - trumpet (2,4)
* Marshall Allen - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
* Danny Davis - alto saxophone (4), flute (3)
* John Gilmore - tenor saxophone (2,3,4), vocal (1,5)
* Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone (1), flute (3), vocal (5)
* Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet (1,5), flute (3)
* Pat Patrick - electric bass (1,2), baritone saxophone (4), vocal (5)
* Lex Humphries - drums (4)
* Atakatun (Stanley Morgan) and Odun (Russel Branch) - percussion (4)("as all marines are riflemen, all members of the Arkestra are percussionists")

Space Ethnic Voices:
* June Tyson, Ruth Wright, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton (1,5)

Producers: Alton Abraham and Ed Michel

References