Sunrise In Different Dimensions
''Sunrise in Different Dimensions'' is a 1980 live jazz album by the Sun Ra Arkestra documenting a concert at the Gasthof Morhen in Willisau, Switzerland from February 24, 1980 which was released on the Hathut Records, hat Hut label. The album intermingles a variety of Sun Ra originals with covers of jazz standards. Critical response Critical response to the album has been largely positive, with some dissent. In a 1983 review of the album, ''The Boston Globe'' described it as a "tour de force", "one of Sun Ra's best." Scott Yanow in his Allmusic review characterized it as "one of the better examples of [Sun Ra's] late-period band." Ajay Heble, author of ''Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice'', indicates that the album "''does'' seem to me to do justice to the energy of Ra's performances." The album is featured in the 2000 book ''The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to Postmodernism'', where contributor Eric Thacker indicates that it is the cover song ...
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Sun Ra
Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. Born and raised in Alabama, Blount became involved in the Chicago jazz scene during the late 1940s. He soon abandoned his birth name, taking the name Le Sony'r Ra, shortened to Sun Ra (after Ra, the Egyptian god of the Sun). Claiming to be an alien from Saturn on a mission to preach peace, he developed a mythical persona and an idiosyncratic credo that made him a pioneer of Afrofuturism. Throughout his life he denied ties to his prior identity saying, "Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym." His widely eclectic and avant-garde music echoed the entire history of jazz, from ragtime and ea ...
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