Back to Saturn

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Back to Saturn
Hugh Ragin Back to Saturn.jpg
Studio album by
Hugh Ragin Collective
Released2000
RecordedAugust 10 and 11, 1993
StudioEye in the Sky Sound, LaPorte, Colorado
Genre Free jazz
Length1:05:28
Label Black Saint
120160-2
Producer Flavio Bonandrini
Hugh Ragin chronology
Gallery
(1999)		Back to Saturn
(2000)		 Fanfare & Fiesta
(2001)

Back to Saturn (Dedicated to the Memory of Sun Ra) is an album by trumpeter Hugh Ragin and his Collective, featuring vibraphonist Greg Carroll, pianist Marc Sabatella, bassist Erik Turkman, and drummer Scott Gordan. It was recorded on August 10 and 11, 1993, at Eye in the Sky Sound in LaPorte, Colorado, and was released in 2000 by the Black Saint label. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow noted that the album "progress[es] logically from the boppish 'Blue Honda a la Truck,' the grooving 'Fanfare and Fiesta,' and 'Bud-Like' to increasingly freer music before the spacy closer." He wrote: "Virtually every Hugh Ragin recording is well-worth exploring, and this one is no exception." [1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings called the album an "enjoyable set" and a "nice record," but noted that "Ragin's devotion to the music of Sun Ra... is more implicit than explicit." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Blue Honda a la Truck" (Marc Sabatella) – 9:18
  2. "Fanfare and Fiesta" (Hugh Ragin) – 6:45
  3. "Bud-like" (Marc Sabatella) – 4:06
  4. "Song for the Old Country" (Don Pullen) – 8:15
  5. "Pictures" (Hugh Ragin) – 11:41
  6. "Hugh's Blues" (Hugh Ragin) – 7:24
  7. "Goblin Market" (Marc Sabatella) – 8:16
  8. "Back to Saturn" (Erik Turkman) – 9:43

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. "Hugh Ragin: Back to Saturn". AllMusic. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Hugh Ragin / Back to Saturn". ArtistInfo. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Hugh Ragin discography". JazzLists. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Black Saint Records main series discography". JazzLists. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1088.
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