Pathways to Unknown Worlds

Studio album by Sun Ra

Released

1975

Recorded

1973
El Saturn Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois

Genre

Free jazz

Length

26:41

Label

Impulse!
ASD-9298

Producer

Alton Abrahams

Sun Ra chronology

Space is the Place
(1972)

Pathways to Unknown Worlds
(1973)

Outer Space Employment Agency
(1973)

Pathways to Unknown Worlds is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Chicago in 1973 and originally released on his Saturn label and rereleased on the ABC/Impulse! label in 1975.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Lindsay Planer awarded the album 4 stars stating "the three free jazz instrumental improvisations are in many respects quite similar to the laissez-faire sonic free for alls that had become synonymous with Ra's concurrent Arkestra(s)".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

Side One:

"Pathways to Unknown Worlds" - 12:12

Side Two:

"Extension Out" - 7:31
"Cosmo-Media" - 6:58

Personnel

Sun Ra - keyboards
Akh Tal Ebah, Lamont McClamb - trumpet
Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
Danny Davis - alto saxophone
John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, percussion
Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone
Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet
Ronnie Boykins, Bill Davis - bass
Clifford Jarvis - drums
Russell Branch - percussion
Eugene Brennan - congas
Stanley Morgan - percussion, congas

References

↑ Sun Ra discography accessed July 5, 2014
1 2 Planer, L., Allmusic Review accessed July 5, 2014

Sun Ra

Discography

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

Chicago Period studio albums	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

New York Period studio albums	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

Philadelphia Period studio albums	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

Live albums	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 Sunrise in Different Dimensions Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion

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