We Travel the Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful

Sun Ra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 20, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Evidence
• ASIN: B0000014JQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,675 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #36 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Avant-Garde

Track Listings

1. Interplanetary Music

2. Eve

3. We Travel The Spaceways

4. Tapestry From An Asteroid

5. Space Loneliness

6. New Horizons

7. Velvet

8. The Bad And The Beautiful

9. Ankh

10. Just In Time

11. Search Light Blues

12. Exotic Two

13. On The Blue Side

14. And This Is My Beloved

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a long time favorite, July 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: We Travel the Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful (Audio CD)

I have been listening to Bad and Beautiful for 30 years.

The title track is the theme song from the movie, and it features a wonderful arrangement by Sun in which the tenor and flute share the melody. It has a very optimistic and careful pace with an ending that leaves you hanging.

Ankh is the ROOTS! Sun recorded it earlier on Delmark, here it is a bit darker and has an otherworld vibe. Just In Time, a nice standard with tenor blowing by John Gilmore. Gilmore was a wonderful tenor who hopefully will not be forgotten. Search Light Blues is another title; it evokes a dark, stormy mood. This music represents a battle of the elements, a lonely voice in the distance in danger of being washed away by the waves. Sun really knew how how to use those diminished chords.

The music world can only thank Sun Ra for all of the beautiful music he made. Those who hear him will remember him. Will you?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Evidence reissues!, June 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: We Travel the Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful (Audio CD)

Normally I hate when critics say "it's worth the price for "[fill in the song title]" alone. Rarely does one song justify a purchase. "Search Light Blues," though, is such a song. The rest of the album is outstanding as well!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Weakest of the two-fers, October 23, 2000

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

This review is from: We Travel the Spaceways / Bad & Beautiful (Audio CD)

Of the "two-fers" Evidence has put out, this is far from the strongest - I wouldn't start here. But as an archeological collection, this is not without interest.

"We Travel the Spaceways" - the tracks here were nearly all recorded on other (available) recordings - and generally the versions on other albums are preferable. Hence, this becomes the equivalent of listening to an early rehearsal tape, and in places the sound is so low-fi that it bolsters this effect. But - "Tapestry From An Asteriod" - amazing. The variations on the other tracks are interesting to hear, also, it should be said.

"Bad and Beautiful" is pretty abstract - I can't get into much of it. I just don't hear a lot in it. My favorite track on there is probably "Exotic Two" where the chattering percussion anticipates the "world music" trend and approaches some kind of aggressive trance - but it's far from Ra's best music.