Sun Ra: Singles - VINYL LP

Title: Singles
Artist: Sun Ra
Label: Strut Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 730003314810
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2016-12-09
Number of Discs: 3

Vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. Strut presents a new definitive collection of Singles released by jazz maverick Sun Ra during his Earth years, spanning 1952 to 1991. Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s offer one-off meteorites from Ra's prolific cosmic journey, tracing the development of his forward-thinking "Space-Bop" and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions which sounded unlike anything else from the period. As with his LPs, most 45s were only pressed in small runs and were sold at gigs and have since become extremely rare and sought after. Only a small handful of copies of "Love In Outer Space" b/w "Mayan Temple" and "The Blue One" b/w "Orbitration In Blue" have ever been seen; some have only been discovered in physical form in recent years; some were planned and penciled in but allegedly never made it to vinyl (including "Saturn" and "Velvet" from the Jazz In Silhouette LP) and some appeared as limited one-off magazine singles and posthumous releases, including "Hell #1" aka "Out There A Minute." The set is the most comprehensive collection of Ra's singles to date. Sleeve note writers Francis Gooding and Paul Griffiths brilliantly illustrate the role of the single within Ra's career and break down each release with detailed track by track notes. Working with Sun Ra LLC and Sun Raarchivist Michael D. Anderson, Strut has also assembled the best possible master sources for each track.

Tracks:
1.1 I Am An Instrument
1.2 I Am Strange
1.3 Chicago USA
1.4 Spaceship Lullaby
1.5 Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie
1.6 A Foggy Day
1.7 I'm Coming Home
1.8 Last Call for Love
1.9 Soft Talk
1.10 Super Blonde
1.11 Saturn
1.12 Call for All Demons
1.13 Demon's Lullaby
1.14 Super-Sonic Jazz (Super Blonde)
1.15 Medicine for a Nighmare
1.16 Urnack
1.17 It's Christmas Time
1.18 Happy New Year to You!
1.19 M Uck M Uck (Matt Matt)
1.20 Hot Skillet Momma
1.21 Bye Bye
1.22 Somebody's in Love
1.23 Hours After
1.24 Great Balls of Fire
2.1 October
2.2 Adventure in Space
2.3 Dreaming
2.4 Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie
2.5 Round Midnight
2.6 Back in Your Own Backyard
2.7 Saturn
2.8 Velvet
2.9 The Sun One
2.10 Message to Earthman
2.11 The Sun Man Speaks
2.12 Space Loneliness
2.13 State Street
2.14 The Blue Set
2.15 Big City Blues
2.16 A Blue One
2.17 Orbitration in Blue
2.18 Hell #1 (A.K.A. Out There a Minute)
2.19 Tell Her to Come
3.1 The Bridge
3.2 Rocket #9
3.3 Blues on Planet Mars
3.4 Saturn Moon
3.5 Journey to Saturn
3.6 Enlightenment
3.7 I'm Gonna Unmask the Batman
3.8 The Perfect Man
3.9 Love in Outer Space
3.10 Mayan Temple
3.11 Sky Blues
3.12 Disco 2021
3.13 Rough House Blues
3.14 Cosmo-Extensions
3.15 Quest
3.16 Outer Space Plateau
3.17 Nuclear War
3.18 Sometimes I'm Happy
3.19 On Jupiter/Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 1)
3.20 Cosmo Drama (Prophetika 2)
3.21 I Am the Instrument