I'm freaked out: Sun Ra has grabbed my ya.

Trimph1 mentioned a Sun Ra documentary.

I thought, hey I remember Sun Ra tearing it up in the '70s... I'm gonna watch.

So I did.

The next thing you know I'm on Grooveshark listening to 5 of his albums and I'm gobsmacked.

I had no idea that he started as a traditional jazz band leader and the stuff from 1956-1959 seems very traditional yet 3 or 4 (or way more) years ahead of what my idea of music history suggests that I should expect. It's like Mingus before Mingus.

I can't get the soft texture, the fancy harmonics, and the hip rhythms of 1956's Super-Sonic Jazz out of my head.

It's groovy.


Juts sayin.


Thanks Trimph1