Release Date: 13 June 2025
Label: Steeplechase
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 716043112616
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 13 June 2025
Label: Steeplechase
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 716043112616
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
180g audiophile vinyl reissue of a legendary duo recording by pianist/composer Sun Ra and vibrophonist Walt Dickerson.
Recorded in the summer of 1978 in Manhattan's C. I. Recording Studio this rare encounter of jazz's supreme instrumentalists and individualists Walt Dickerson (1928 - 2008) and Sun Ra (1914 - 1993) became an instant cult album among the followers of Avant Garde jazz of the '70s.
The author of the newly added liner notes Neil Tesser remarks, "Nearly a half-century after the fact, Visions now stands as a milestone of free improvisation". Almost half a century ago Trevor Tolley of Canadian jazz publication Coda enthused, "This is a tremendous record...outstanding collaborations throughout this beautiful record, as well as some gloriously sustained solo passages...it is the work of two masters in the full certainty of their powers."
Sun Ra: piano
Walt Dickerson: vibraphone
Recorded July 11, 1978
Tracklisting
Lee/Vazquez/Hirshfield
Paul Bollenback; Boris Kozlov
Johnny Dyani; John Tchicai; Dudu Pukwana; Alfredo do Nascimento; Luez Carlos de Sequaira; Mohamed A
Vic Juris
Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn
Sam Jones
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Sun Speak
Robert Mitchell
Gregory Groover Jr.
McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter & Al Foster
Ruby Rushton
Rabbath Electric Orchestra
Sophisticated Ladies
Russ Lossing