Holiday for Soul Dance
Holiday For Soul Dance | ||||
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Studio album by Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1970[1] | |||
Recorded | 1960 Chicago[2] | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 31:59 | |||
Label | Saturn Evidence | |||
Producer | Alton Abraham | |||
Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra chronology | ||||
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Holiday For Soul Dance is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra recorded in Chicago, mid-1960 and originally released on his own Saturn label in 1970. The album was reissued by Evidence on Compact disc in 1992. Within Ra's catalogue, Holiday For Soul Dance is considered a bit of an oddity as it lacks any tracks written by Sun Ra,[5] although a song written by Phil Cohran, the Arkestra's cornet player, is included. The record is one of a trio of albums recorded between 1959 and 1961, featuring jazz standards, that Ra released in the early 1970s. The others were Sound Sun Pleasure!! (recorded 1959 and also released in 1970) and Bad and Beautiful (recorded 1961 and released in 1972).
The album was one of five to include songs recorded in a marathon recording session around June 17, 1960 at the RCA Studios, Chicago (or possibly at Hall Recording Co, also Chicago). The other four were Interstellar Low Ways, Fate In A Pleasant Mood, Angels and Demons at Play and We Travel The Space Ways.
Track listing
12" Vinyl
Side A:
- "But Not For Me" (Gershwin) - (4.11)
- "Day By Day" (Cahn, Stordahl, Weston) - (3.40)
- "Holiday for Strings" (Rose, Gallo) - (4.09)
- "Dorothy's Dance" (Cohran) - (3.19)
Side B:
- "Early Autumn" (Herman, Mercer, Burns) - (4.53)
- "I Loves You Porgy" (Gershwin, Gershwin, Heyward) - (3.35)
- "Body and Soul" (Green, Heyman, Sour, Eyton) - (6.00)
- "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" (DeSylva, Brown) - (2.12)
Musicians
Source:[1]
- Sun Ra - Percussion, Bells, Gong and Piano
- Phil Cohran - Cornet
- Nate Pryor - Trombone and Bells
- John Gilmore - Tenor Sax and Clarinet, percussion
- Marshall Allen - Alto Sax, Flute, Bells
- Ronnie Boykins - Bass
- Jon Hardy - Drums
- Ricky Murray - Vocals on Early Autumn
Recorded at RCA Studios, Chicago, around 17 June 1960, except "Early Autumn", recorded during rehearsals at the Wonder Inn, Chicago, around the same time.[1]
See also
References
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods