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Air was a free jazz trio founded by saxophone player Henry Threadgill, double bassist Fred Hopkins, and drummer Steve McCall in 1971. [1] [2] Career.
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recorded on October 10, 1961, for the Savoy label and released in 1962. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album was supervised by Tom Wilson , who would later produce albums by the Velvet Underground , Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan .
Spiritual jazz (or astral jazz) [1] is a sub-genre of jazz that originated in the United States during the 1960s. The genre is hard to characterize musically but draws from free, avant-garde and modal jazz and thematically focuses on transcendence and spirituality. [2] [3] John Coltrane's 1965 album A Love Supreme is considered landmark in the ...
Fire Music is a 2021 documentary film directed by Tom Surgal about free jazz. The documentary focuses on the key innovators associated with the movement, including John Coltrane , Ornette Coleman , Cecil Taylor , Albert Ayler , Don Cherry , and Sun Ra .
The Sun Ra Arkestra is an American jazz group formed in the mid-1950s and led by keyboardist/composer Sun Ra until his death in 1993. The group is considered a pioneer of afrofuturism . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since 1995 the Arkestra has been led by saxophonist Marshall Allen , an Arkestra member since 1958, who is supported by more than a dozen other ...
The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "Sun Ra provided some stunning moments on the Rocksichord, while leading The Arkestra through stomping full-band cuts of atmospheric or alternately hard bop compositions, peeling off various saxophonists for skittering, screaming, at times spacey dialogues".
"Third Stone from the Sun" (or "3rd Stone from the Sun") is a mostly instrumental composition by American musician Jimi Hendrix. It incorporates several musical approaches, including jazz and psychedelic rock, with brief spoken passages. The title reflects Hendrix's interest in science fiction and is a reference to Earth in its position as the ...
Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959, [ 4 ] it remained unreleased until 1970 when it was issued on the Saturn label.