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BlueNote · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:32 am

I just downloaded 35 Sun Ra albums. This is going to be an epic adventure.

bondcfh007 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:43 am

i haven't heard much Sun Ra, but what I did hear I liked. Sounds like fun!

Kommienezuspadt · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:56 am

havent heard this in a long long time..

glorified_version · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:17 am

I've been wanting to look into him lately

King · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:01 pm

unlistenable

BlueNote · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:48 pm

King wrote:

unlistenable

his free jazz stuff is tough on the ears but the majority of his music is incredible. I downloaded 10 more after starting this thread to bring it up to 45 albums.

King · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:42 pm

why would you need that many albums by one person

King · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:44 pm

in doing what you are doing now you're scaring the common man away from jazz

SuperNintendoChalmers · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:38 pm **Posts:** 4388

Hear one album, you hear them all. I don't know if I would even consider Sun free, he's kind of in his own niche, but I don't find it all that deep. To me he seems almost "shticky".

If your into free, theres tons of other, better albums to find. Here is Thurston's top ten free jazz albums.

http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/FreeJazz.html

BlueNote · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:02 am

SuperNintendoChalmers wrote:

Hear one album, you hear them all.

false.

SuperNintendoChalmers wrote:

I don't know if I would even consider Sun free, he's kind of in his own niche, but I don't find it all that deep. To me he seems almost "shticky".

If your into free, theres tons of other, better albums to find. Here is Thurston's top ten free jazz albums.

http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/FreeJazz.html

i'm not really into free jazz. sun ra's freer stuff like heliocentric worlds doesn't appeal to me but i dig his big band stuff and fusion-type stuff.

BlueNote · **Posted:** Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:04 am

King wrote:

in doing what you are doing now you're scaring the common man away from jazz

the common man has no interest in jazz anyway, and this thread was never about recruiting people to that genre of music. i was just excited to have a vast catalogue of interesting music to explore for a while.

i got bugs · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:01 pm **Posts:** 14261

his cousin afu ra is better

SuperNintendoChalmers · **Joined:** Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:38 pm **Posts:** 4388

To each his own, but I can only take that "man from another planet" shit for so long. It wears thin. I just feel theres better stuff out there that pushes the envelope even further than Sun Ra.

I think free jazz kind of sucks, but saying that I'd rather listen to Dolphy, Taylor, and Shepp than Ra.

Afu is indeed better...

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