Supersonic Jazz

Sun Ra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Evidence
• ASIN: B0000014J3
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,228 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #34 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Avant-Garde

Track Listings

1. India

2. Sunology

3. Advice To Medics

4. Super Blonde

5. Soft Talk

6. Sunology Part II

7. Kingdom Of Not

8. Portrait Of The Living Sky

9. Blues At Midnight

10. El Is A Sound Of Joy

11. Springtime In Chicago

12. Medicine For A Nightmare

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable and consistently excellent, August 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Supersonic Jazz (Audio CD)

This album and "Jazz in Silhouette" are the two which I would recommend to Sun Ra novices. It is beautiful, conventionally enjoyable, toe tapping fun, with excellent solos by John Gilmore. It features some of the earliest use of electric keyboards and extra percussion by anyone, but most of it is vigorous mainstream hard bop, but with a Ra twist to be sure. Virtually any jazz fan could enjoy this one.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music as Colorful as the Cover Art, October 23, 2000

By 

Scott McFarland (Manassas, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supersonic Jazz (Audio CD)

The tonal colors just fly out of the music. An underheard jazz masterpiece. This is a great starting point into Ra's music, and a wonderful, deep, varied album. Discographers claim this was recorded in 1956, but it's hard to believe that. The music is absolutely timeless.

Great composition, great imaginative arrangement of those themes across a wide tonal pallette, great playing, and a mastering job that presents the music in all its glory.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of sun ra's best, September 21, 2006

By 

fluffy, the human being. (forest lake, mn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supersonic Jazz (Audio CD)

buyer beware: there are 2 types of sun ra recordings. 1. great colorful big band music featuring the great saxophone work of john gilmore. (which is the category super-sonic jazz certainly falls into). and 2. experimental free-form jazz. i, personally, cannot stand the pretentious free-form stuff, but when the sun ra outfit is focused on compositions (as they are on this cd) they make jazz about as good to listen to as anybody. this is a perfect cd to introduce yourself to the best kind of sun ra. yes, sir.