Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra - We Travel The Spaceways & Bad And Beautiful 1956-61

Selections 1-7 were originally issued as the LP We Travel The Spaceways (El Saturn LP 409)
Selections 8-14 were originally issued as the LP Bad And Beautiful (El Saturn LP 532).


We Travel The Spaceways

Side A:

1 Interplanetary Music (Ra) 2:40


Ra- cosmic tone org
Phil Cohran zither (violin/uke)
John Gilmore cosmic bells
Ronnie Boykins b
prob. Marshall Allen perc
Ensemble voc
The drummer could be William Cochran

Recorded in clubs, Chicago, 1960.

2 Eve (Ra) 3:08

Ra p
Walter Strickland tp
Nate Pryor tb
Marshall Allen as
John Gilmore ts
Pat Patrick bs
Ronnie Boykins b
Robert Barry d.

"El Saturn Studio" (some club or rehearsal, indeed), Chicago, around 1959.

3 We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) 3:21

Ra p
George Hudson tp, perc
Marshall Allen as, bells, flying saucer
John Gilmore ts, perc
Ronnie Boykins b
Jon Hardy d
members of the band perc

Chicago, late 1960 or early 1961.

4 Tapestry from an Asteroid (Ra) 2:06

Ra p
Phil Cohran tp
Marshall Allen as
John Gilmore ts
Ronald Wilson bs
Ronnie Boykins b
Jon Hardy d

Chicago, 1960.

Side B:

5 Space Loneliness (Ra) 4:48

Ra p
George Hudson tp
Marshall Allen as
John Gilmore ts
Ronnie Boykins b
Jon Hardy d

Chicago, late 1960 or early 1961.

6 New Horizons (Ra) 3:00

Ra p
Art Hoyle tp
Julian Priester tb
James Scales as
John Gilmore bells
Pat Patrick bs
Wilburn Green eb
Robert Barry d.

RCA Studio, Chicago, 1956.

7 Velvet (Ra) 4:36

Ra p
Phil Cohran tp
Nate Pryor tb
Marshall Allen as
John Gilmore ts
Ronnie Boykins b
Jon Hardy d

Hall Recording Company, Chicago,late 1960.


Bad And Beautiful

8 The Bad And The Beautiful 2:43
9 Ankh 5:10
10 Just In Time 3:49
11 Search Light Blues 5:37
12 Exotic Two 4:46
13 On The Blue Side 5:28
14 And This Is My Beloved 3:15