Outer Space Employement Agency [Live]

1. Discipline "99"

2. Love in Outer Space

3. Watusa/Disciplline 27-11

4. At First There Was Nothing/The Universe Has More to Offer You/Wake up a

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
During his lengthy recording career, Sun Ra employed many styles, from swing to doo-wop to free jazz to Disney show tunes. No single album can express the breadth of his intergalactic musical vision, but this recording culled from his 16-piece Intergalactic Arkestra's performance at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival vividly conveys the exuberance of his band in full cry. The first track, "Discipline 99," blasts off with a blizzard of metal-flaking electronics and wooly, honking reeds; it sounds chaotic, but the perfectly timed leaps between passages for the whole group, emphatic solo statements, and an exhilarating unison between saxophone and synthesizer betray the iron command that Ra exercised over his ensemble. The Arkestra go on to shine brightly on Ellingtonian waltzes, extended multipercussion workouts, and a lengthy vocal segment in which Ra and his crew bestow jewels of space wisdom upon the enthusiastic crowd with gospel fervor. --Bill Meyer --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Description
Legendary live performance with his Intergalactic Arkestra recorded at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival on September 9th, 1973. Four tracks, including 'Love In Outer Space' and 'Discipline 99'. 1999 release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Outer Space Employement Agency,Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra,Total Energy,Avant-Garde,Avant-Garde Jazz,Experimental Big Band,Free Jazz,Jazz,Pop

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Discipline
Love In Outer Space
Watusa/Discipline 27-11
At First There Was Nothing/The Universe Has More To Offer You/Wake Up Angels/Outer Space...

Amazon.com

During his lengthy recording career, Sun Ra employed many styles, from swing to doo-wop to free jazz to Disney show tunes. No single album can express the breadth of his intergalactic musical vision, but this recording culled from his 16-piece Intergalactic Arkestra's performance at the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival vividly conveys the exuberance of his band in full cry. The first track, "Discipline 99," blasts off with a blizzard of metal-flaking electronics and wooly, honking reeds; it sounds chaotic, but the perfectly timed leaps between passages for the whole group, emphatic solo statements, and an exhilarating unison between saxophone and synthesizer betray the iron command that Ra exercised over his ensemble. The Arkestra go on to shine brightly on Ellingtonian waltzes, extended multipercussion workouts, and a lengthy vocal segment in which Ra and his crew bestow jewels of space wisdom upon the enthusiastic crowd with gospel fervor. --Bill Meyer

Album Description

Legendary live performance with his Intergalactic Arkestra recorded at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival on September 9th, 1973. Four tracks, including 'Love In Outer Space' and 'Discipline 99'. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews:

Space is the Place..........2005-12-23

Not for every listener, this live recording from the Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Festival of 1973 preserves the unique dimensions of Sun Ra and Arkestra's theater and sound. The sound quality will disappoint many but diverting focus to the content and message of the performance may allow for an enhanced appreciation for the "otherworldliness" and secular gospel aspects of this recording. Probably not a good introduction to Sun Ra but it is an amazing, creative and philosophical document of Arkestra's jazz theater.

noisy, ragged, grating..........2001-12-16

Listening to the version of Watusi here just made me appreciate more the studio version on Angels & Demons At Play. OSEA is noisy, too much outside free for alls... ok, maybe there is a lot of discipline and technique involved, fine, so simply calling it noise would not be fair, but the effect, regardless, is that it sounds like a bunch of noise. And the recording quality on this album is quite spotty.

Well, this is my initial impression, maybe the album will grow on me. But I have a number of other Sun Ra albums, all of which I'd rank much higher than this one. Get this one only if you're such a Sun Ra completist and you already have all his other stuff. Otherwise, I recommend skipping it...

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