73-85, The Golden Age of Ra?

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#1 Thu, 1997-05-01 01:45
Thomas Stanley
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73-85, The Golden Age of Ra?

James,

Appreciate your revelation that J. Gordon doesn't dig Sun Ra's post 1970 production. Personally, I think his exclusive focus on the earlist end of Ra's illustrious catalogue explains why most record stores in the known world are sitting on a pile of unmoving early titles. Respectfully, I also find the members of this list have an academic bias towards the earlier titles. Obviously, from a purely discographical viewpoint, older = better. But in terms of Sun Ra's life as a bold and influential artist, I think a strong argument can be made that his skills, vision, and available personnel congeal into their cosmic finest from about 1973 to 1985.

The Sun Ra sound (if you will allow such a blasphemous simplification) is based on the full integration of avant garde, swing, and sweeping electronic explorations. These elements are at their highest level of integration in the period I'm referring to. Sun Ra's wisdom by this time has ripened and the perils of mortality have not yet diminished his team or weakened his hand. I know that in the age of MIDI and drum machines it easy to long for a purely or primarily acoustic music, but I don't think this postmodern proclivity should skew our appreciation of the fullness of Sun Ra's gifts to us. In Sun Ra's hands, the synthesizer was never a trivial addition or a trendy embellishment. I'm not sure that anyone before or since has done as much "serious" work with electronic keyboards. And frankly, discographically speaking, the best of the late period Sun Ra is also out-of-print and increasingly difficult to find. Case in point, the excitement generated when a few copies of the Praxis series was made available on this list.

We have to be careful when we try to overlay our existing paradigms for the study and preservation of fine jazz on the Omniversal Legacy of Sun Ra. Jerry Gordon would have done his bank account and we the listener a favor by trying to be less discographical in his approach to reissuing the Saturn material: Much more later stuff that sounds distinctly Sun Ra (wouldn't you like to have a digital version of Saturn 7877A/B?), some of the earlier stuff that is grounded in the mainstream of jazz, and a liberal portion of the middle period that shows the transition between the two (here I have few complaints; Atlantis, The Magic City and Angels & Demons are necessary reissues for precisely this reason).

Anyhow, that's my read on the zenith of the cosmojourney. Would appreciate your comments. One more post script, try to find a copy of the "Space is the Place" soundtrack at the record stores that seem to have piles of everything else. Mr. Gordon, I think, seriously misread the tastes of the buying public.

                            Fate in a Pleasant Mood,

                            Thomas