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    Sun Ra Sleeping Beauty

    Art Yard
    • Sun Ra – Door of the Cosmos
    • Sun Ra – Sleeping Beauty
    • 1. Springtime Again
    • 2. Door of the Cosmos
    • 3. Sleeping Beauty

    The holy grail of Sun Ra albums! Utterly essential deep jazz with vocals and Sun Ra on electric piano - this is up there with Lanquidity as one of his best albums! Very highly recommended! If you like 1970s deep jazz then you need this album - it's as simple as that!

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          Sun RaLanquidity (Deluxe Edition)Strut
          Deluxe, definitive issue of the greatest Sun Ra album, recorded in NYC, 1978! Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic...
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            • Silver foil box, first 2LP set in a foil / magenta sleeve, 2nd set in 2x yellow A4 sheets incl. a 12-page over-sized booklet.

            • Remastered versions of main album and alternative versions cut at 45 RPM across 4xLPs

            • Includes unseen photos and extensive sleeve notes by Bob Blank, Michael Ray and Danny Ray Thompson of Sun Ra Arkestra and Tom Buchler of Philly Jazz
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            • Includes unseen photos and extensive sleeve notes by Bob Blank, Michael Ray and Danny Ray Thompson of Sun Ra Arkestra and Tom Buchler of Philly Jazz
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            (Strut 25th Anniversary Edition) - Standard Weight, Black Vinyl LP Housed In Tip-On Sleeve With OBI, Poster And Insert.
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          Sun RaSecrets of the Sun
          Mystical magical mid-sixties album from cult Saturnian jazz hero Sun Ra! Featuring a classic cast of Arkestra muscians including Marshall Allen, John...
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              When Sun Comes Out finds Ra working with the Arkestra once more.T he sound is given a cosmological context and cut with an exotic ambience.
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