Unity (Sun Ra album)

Unity

Live album by Sun Ra Arkestra

Released

1978

Recorded

October 24 & 28, 1977
Storyville, NYC

Horo
HDP 19-20

Aldo Sinesio

Sun Ra chronology

Taking a Chance on Chances
(1977)

Unity
(1977)

Piano Recital - Teatro La Fenice, Venezia
(1977)

Unity is a live double album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Italian Horo label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars naming it "The Arkestra's best live album. Loaded with standards. Incredible musicianship".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated

Side One:

"Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) - 5:39
"Lightnin'" (Duke Ellington) - 2:37
"How Am I To Know?" (Jack King, Dorothy Parker) - 9:33
"Lights" - 5:42

Side Two:

"Yeah Man" (Fletcher Henderson) - 3:01
"King Porter Stomp" (Jelly Roll Morton) - 4:04
"Images" - 10:31
"Penthouse Serenade" (Val Burton, Will Jason) - 4:10

Side Three:

"Lady Bird/Half Nelson" (Tadd Dameron/Miles Davis) - 8:00
"Halloween" - 6:02
"My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 6:00

Side Four:

"The Satellites" - 7:30
"Rose Room" (Art Hickman, Harry Williams) - 9:37
"Enlightment" (Hobart Dotson, Sun Ra) - 2:06

Personnel

Sun Ra - organ, Rocksichord
Ahmed Abdullah, Michael Ray - trumpet
Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet, vocals
Craig Harris, Charles Stephens - trombone
Vincent Chancey - French horn
Emmett McDonald - bass horn
Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, oboe, flute
Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute
John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, clarinet, percussion
Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute
Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, flute
James Jacson - flute, bassoon, percussion
Richard Williams - bass
Luqman Ali, Thomas Hunter - drums
Atakatune, Eddie Thomas - percussion
June Tyson - vocals

References

↑ Sun Ra discography accessed July 4, 2014
1 2 Nastos, M. G., Allmusic Review accessed July 4, 2014

Sun Ra

Discography

Arkestra Members	John Gilmore Julian Priester Pat Patrick Charles Davis Victor Sproles Marshall Allen Ronnie Boykins James Spaulding Phil Cohran Clifford Jarvis Lex Humphries Michael Ray June Tyson Ahmed Abdullah

Chicago Period studio albums	Jazz by Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz Sound of Joy Visits Planet Earth The Nubians of Plutonia Jazz in Silhouette Sound Sun Pleasure!! Interstellar Low Ways Fate in a Pleasant Mood Holiday for Soul Dance Angels and Demons at Play We Travel the Space Ways

New York Period studio albums	The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra Bad and Beautiful Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow Secrets of the Sun When Sun Comes Out Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy When Angels Speak of Love Other Planes of There The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One The Magic City The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two Strange Strings Monorails and Satellites Atlantis

Philadelphia Period studio albums	Space Is the Place (soundtrack) Space Is The Place Pathways to Unknown Worlds Cosmos Deep Purple Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue New Steps Other Voices, Other Blues Visions Lanquidity Sleeping Beauty Strange Celestial Road Reflections in Blue Hours After Blue Delight Somewhere Else Purple Night Mayan Temples

Live albums	Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold Nothing Is Nuits de la Fondation Maeght It's After the End of the World Black Myth/Out in Space Live in Egypt 1 Nidhamu Horizon Live In Montreux Unity Live from Soundscape Sunrise in Different Dimensions Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion

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