Pathways to Unknown Worlds
| Pathways to Unknown Worlds | ||||
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| Released | 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 El Saturn Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois | |||
| Genre | Free jazz | |||
| Length | 26:41 | |||
| Label | Impulse! ASD-9298 | |||
| Producer | Alton Abrahams | |||
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Pathways to Unknown Worlds is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Chicago in 1973 and originally released on his Saturn label and rereleased on the ABC/Impulse! label in 1975.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4 stars stating "the three free jazz instrumental improvisations are in many respects quite similar to the laissez-faire sonic free for alls that had become synonymous with Ra's concurrent Arkestra(s)".[2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
Track listing
All compositions by Sun Ra
Side One:
- "Pathways to Unknown Worlds" - 12:12
Side Two:
- "Extension Out" - 7:31
- "Cosmo-Media" - 6:58
Personnel
- Sun Ra - keyboards
- Akh Tal Ebah, Lamont McClamb - trumpet
- Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
- Danny Davis - alto saxophone
- John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, percussion
- Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone
- Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet
- Ronnie Boykins, Bill Davis - bass
- Clifford Jarvis - drums
- Russell Branch - percussion
- Eugene Brennan - congas
- Stanley Morgan - percussion, congas
References
- ^ Sun Ra discography accessed July 5, 2014
- ^ a b Planer, L., Allmusic Review accessed July 5, 2014