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Sun Ra and His Arkestra · 1959 · Ouverture de Jazz in Silhouette (Sun Ra / Hobart Dotson)

Context

Opens Jazz in Silhouette, third album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recorded in Chicago on March 6, 1959. The page places it in his initial, relatively conventional period.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modern big bands, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Modern big bands: Swing, big bands, Third stream.

By the same artist

• Ancient Aiethopia (1959)
• Saturn (1959)
• Horoscope (1959)
• Blues at Midnight (1959)
• Outer Nothingness (1965)
• The Cosmos (1965)

Sources

• EN: Jazz in Silhouette

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