Blue Delight
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Track listing

  1. "Blue Delight" - 11:10
  2. "Out of Nowhere" (Green
    Johnny Green
    Johnny Green was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conductor. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul"...

    , Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...

    ) - 5:26
  3. "Sunrise" - 11:48
  4. "They Dwell on Other Planes" - 14:41
  5. "Gone with the Wind" (Magison, Wrubel
    Allie Wrubel
    Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...

    ) - 5:51
  6. "Your Guest is as Good as Mine" - 5:53
  7. "Nashira" (Priester
    Julian Priester
    Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...

    ) - 4:09
  8. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Mancini
    Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

    ) - 6:58

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated. All arrangements by Sun Ra.
Recorded at Variety Recording Studios, New York on December 5, 1988.

Personnel

  • Sun Ra
    Sun Ra
    Sun Ra was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama...

     - piano, synthesizer
  • Fred Adams
    Fred Adams
    Fred C. Adams is an American astrophysicist who has made contributions to the study of physical cosmology.- Biography:Fred Adams is professor of physics at the University of Michigan, where his main field of research is astrophysics theory focusing on star formation, background radiation fields,...

     - trumpet
  • Tommy Turrentine
    Tommy Turrentine
    Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s, the older brother of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.-Biography:...

     - trumpet
  • Ahmed Abdullah
    Ahmed Abdullah
    Ahmed Abdullah is a jazz trumpeter. He began playing when he was 13 years old. By the 1970s he was performing in New York's loft scene, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1976. Since that time he has played with Chico Freeman, Ronnie Boykins, Charles Brackeen, Steve Reid, John Hicks and Marion Brown...

     - trumpet
  • Al Evans
    Al Evans
    Alfred Hubert Evans was an American Major League Baseball catcher and a Minor League manager. Listed at 5' 11", 190 lb., Evans batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Kenly, North Carolina....

     - flugelhorn
  • Tyrone Hill
    Tyrone Hill
    Tyrone Hill is a retired American basketball player and, since 2008–09, assistant coach for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Hill spent four years playing collegiately at Xavier University, in his last season averaging 20.2 points and 12.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 58.1% from the field...

     - trombone
  • Julian Priester
    Julian Priester
    Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...

     - trombone
  • Marshall Allen
    Marshall Allen
    Marshall Belford Allen is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI ....

     - alto saxophone, flute, oboe, clarinet
  • Noel Scott
    Noel Scott
    Noel Scott, QSO was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.He represented the electorate of Tongariro in Parliament from 1984 to 1990, when he was defeated by Ian Peters, one of a number of losses contributing to the fall of the Fourth Labour Government.-References:New Zealand Parliamentary...

     - alto saxophone, percussion
  • John Gilmore
    John Gilmore (musician)
    John Gilmore was an American jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra...

     - tenor saxophone, clarinet, percussion
  • Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute, bongos
  • Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, alto saxophone, contra-alto clarinet, percussion
  • James Jacson - bassoon, flute, percussion
  • Bruce Edwards - electric guitar
  • Carl LeBlanc - electric guitar (all solos)
  • John Ore
    John Ore
    John Ore is an American jazz bassist.Ore attended the New School of Music in Philadelphia from 1943-46, studying cello, and followed this with studies on bass at Juilliard....

     - bass
  • Billy Higgins
    Billy Higgins
    Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...

     - drums
  • Earl "Buster" Smith - drums
  • Elson Nascimento - percussion
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