Artist	Song
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Urnack (Angels and Demons at Play, early 1956)
Sun Ra	Possession (Sun Song, July 12, 1956)
Sun Ra	Future (Sun Song)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Saturn (Sound of Joy, Delmark, September-December, 1956)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Velvet (Jazz in Silhouette, 1958)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Horoscope (Jazz in Silhouette)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Plutonian Nights (The Nubians of Plutonia, late 1958/early 1959)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Ankhnaton (Fate in a Pleasant Mood, June 17, 1960)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Somewhere in Space (Interstellar Low Ways, June 17, 1960)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Jet Flight (Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, 1961)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Space Jazz Reverie (Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra)
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra	Search Light Blues (Bad and Beautiful, Nov-Dec, 1961)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Dancing Shadows (When Sun Comes Out, late 1962/early 1963)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Dimensions in Time (When Sun Comes Out, late 1962/early 1963)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra	Next Stop Mars (Out there a Minute 1963)
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra (bass clarinet)	Adventure-Equation (Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy)
Andrew Hill	Compulsion (Compulsion, October 8, 1965)
Andrew Hill (bass clarinet)	Premonition (Compulsion)
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra	Sketch (Other Planes of There, early 1964)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	Dancing Shadows (Nothing Is, May 1966)
Pete (La Roca) Sims	Love Planet (Turkish Women at the Bath, May 25, 1967
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra	Spectrum (The Solar-Myth Approach vol. 1, 1967)
Sun Ra	Saturn (Outer Spaceways Inc., 1968)
Andrew Hill	Black Monday (Andrew!!!, June 25, 1964)
Andrew Hill	Le Serpent Qui Danse (Andrew!!!, June 25, 1964)
Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra	Pleasant Twilight (My Brother the Wind II, early 1970)
Sun Ra and his Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra	Discipline 8 (Discipline 27-II, October 19, 1972)
Sun Ra	Song No. 1 (The Antique Blacks, August 17, 1974)
Sun Ra	Thoughts Under a Dark Blue Light (Cymbals, 1973)
Sun Ra and his Arkestra	My Favorite Things (Some Blues but not the kind that's Blue, 1977)

Comment:

[revised with notes] John Gilmore, Sun Ra's tenor player for the bulk of Ra's time here on Earth. One of my favorite tenor saxophonists, and if people think that Johnny Griffin or Sonny Stitt don't get their due alongside Coltrane, Rollins, Parker, McLean....then here is a guy who really doesn't get his due.

My title refers to the story of Coltrane sitting in the audience watching Gilmore play in NYC around 1961, jumping up after a particularily probing solo and saying something like, "John Gilmore, you motherfucker, you got it." Just what "it" was, I am certainly not qualified to say; but over the course of the music I present here, it is easy to reach the same conclusion Coltrane came to.

All of these songs feature Gilmore on tenor saxophone, except for "Adventure-Equation" and "Premonition," on which John plays bass clarinet.

Download in 2 parts, enjoy.

(For those of you who saw this on Sunday, I had to switch out the Body and Soul from Holiday for Soul Dance that I had in the 8 slot because I am too lazy to dub my LP. I have made up for it by including the version of My Favorite Things from a fairly rare Saturn LP from the late 70s.)

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