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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
One of the great things about Sun Ra is what a fantastic conventional jazz musician he was when he wanted to be. It makes his deep stretches into the avant garde more meaningful. That cat knew what he was doing!
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True, but with that said, this album felt like a commercial stretch. Almost ever album he does has some element of traditional jazz on it in order to ease the listener in. This album, however, had nothing much for the listener to be eased into.
Even the conventional end of it isn't his best when it comes to his conventional stuff. Not a knock on Sun Ra, but you have to remember I'm trying to grade these albums in relative to each other, and I'm 100% sure since this is one of the few not released on his label that he was either censored, or self censoring on this one.