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    Sun Ra And His Arkestra Bad And Beautiful (1972)

    Saturn Research
      • 1. Bad And The Beautiful
      • 2. Ankh
      • 3. Just In Time
      • 4. Search Light Blues
      • 5. Exotic Two
      • 6. On The Blue Side
      • 7. And This Is My Beloved

      Recorded in 1961 in New York City at the Choreographers' Workshop, 414 W. 51st St., the album was the second to be recorded in New York by the Arkestra after leaving Chicago, but would remain unreleased until 1972. The album is considered to represent an important transition between the big band approach of the Chicago recordings, and the more 'outside' approach of Ra's smaller bands recorded later in the decade:

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