Jazz in Silhouette

Occupation

Jazz in Silhouette is a jazz album by Sun Ra, which was added on March 6, 1959 in Chicago and was released in May this year at El Saturn Records. Jazz in Silhouette was at a session where the Sun Ra and His Arkestra music for the later released albums Sound Sun Pleasure! and Interstellar Low Ways grossed. In 1974 the material was in the catalog of Impulse! taken; as a compact disc ( and first time in stereo) released the album 1992 Evidence Records.

Sun Ra and El Saturn Records

The time in which Sun Ra worked with his Arkestra in Chicago is delivered mainly by a group of singles and albums ( with the exception of Jazz by Sun Ra and the sound published until 1968 of Joy ) in the mid to late have been published in 1950 on their own label Ras El Saturn. El Saturn was next to Charles Mingus / Max Roach's Debut label one of the first record companies in possession of musicians; Sun Ra's business partner was his manager and friend Alton Abraham. After the business was founded in 1955 and the advent of Super-Sonic Jazz ( 1956) Jazz In Silhouette was their second release. The LP was released with the cover of a H. P. Corbissero what was possibly a pseudonym for Sun Ra himself ( Herman Poole = HP ).

In this period, " defined Ra and Abraham a Do-It -Yourself ethic that would later become part of American independent music industry, which produced her record envelopes custom and sometimes in manual production ". With this process, they kept control of their publications. The cover design of LPs from Saturn Records were designed by a host of semi-professional and amateur artists, some of which were associated with the Arkestra. These cover designs mixed the space iconography with a very personal mix of apocalyptic ideas. These covers were printed with inked by hand metal plates that were from workshops in Chicago's Southside, and so the Saturn label was able to produce copies of their records in unusually small numbers, in the on-demand method, sometimes only 20 copies of a concert.

The music of the album

During the second half of the 1950s established himself Sun Ra and his Arkestra in Chicago as " impressive representative of a new strand or sub-genres of jazz " by further developed by treatment of familiar jazz standards. So presented the Arkestra Jazz in Silhouette with a collection of original compositions that featured the capabilities of Sun Ra as a composer, arranger and musician demonstrated. This was particularly the rapid and complex pieces Saturn and Velvet played with great skill and precision. Velvet is reminiscent of the standard Jeepers Creepers, with trumpeter Hobart Dotson as soloists. The other extended compositions Ancient Aiethopia and Blues at Midnight are more influenced by the soloists from the ensemble. You can hear the tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, Ronnie Boykins bassist, baritone saxophonist Pat Patrick and alto saxophonist Marshall Allen and James Spaulding. Indicative of the group sound are the flowing dialogues that Sun Ra takes his musicians, and his method, " the ensemble with the ups and downs of his uncanny blend of melody and rhythm conduct ". According to Lindsay planner this is the decisive " factor in the freshness, keep the material " have.

Reception

The album is considered by many critics as the highlight of the early Chicago period of the Arkestra, before the orchestra " in the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s was full-fledged " said Lindsay planner in his review for Allmusic; there was excellent in silhouette with four ( out of five) stars jazz.

Mathew Raver rated jazz in silhouette as " an overlooked masterpiece that makes it clear that Sun Ra is not regarded as a curiosity, but one of the most creative forces in the jazz universe, one of gravity [ was] the orbits of many important developments in jazz had been. "

Richard Cook and Brian Morton praised the album in The Penguin Guide to Jazz as part of their Core Collection, and recorded it with the crown;

Title list

Jazz in Silhouette first appeared as Saturn K7OP3590 / 1, later than Saturn 5786th The specified track list referred to in the CD edition Evidence 22012th on the LP edition Impulse ASD 9265 music pieces are arranged in the same way, but there Title 8 disappears.

  • All compositions, unless otherwise indicated, are from Sun Ra.
Record label Impulse! Records John Gilmore (musician) Charles Davis (Saxophonist) Laurdine "Pat" Patrick Independent record label Jeepers Creepers (2001 film) Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer)
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