The Adventures of Astral Pirates

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The Adventures of Astral Pirates
Lenny White - AstralPirates.jpg
Studio album by
Released1978 (1978)
Studio Different Fur Studios
Genre Jazz fusion, jazz-funk, post-bop
Length33:24
Label Elektra
Producer Lenny White, Al Kooper
Lenny White chronology
Big City
(1977)
The Adventures of Astral Pirates
(1978)
Streamline
(1978)

The Adventures of Astral Pirates is the third studio album by drummer Lenny White, released in 1978 by Elektra Records. [1] The album reached No. 18 on the Cashbox Top Jazz Albums chart. [2]

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
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Alex Henderson of AllMusic praised the album saying "One of Lenny White's finest, most essential albums, The Adventures of Astral Pirates is a jazz-fusion masterpiece with a futuristic science-fiction theme....This set isn't the least bit predictable, and it could easily be described as "the sound of surprise"—critic Whitney Balliett's term for jazz—even though no one will mistake it for straight-ahead bop any time soon." [3]

Track listing

Side Pursuit

No.TitleLength
1."Prelude: Theme For Astral Pirates"1:20
2."Pursuit"2:58
3."Mandarin Warlords"5:06
4."The Great Pyramid"2:30
5."Universal Love"3:30
6."Remembering"0:34
7."Revelation (Astral Pirates)"3:25

Side Encounter

No.TitleLength
9."Stew, Cabbage And Galactic Beans"3:51
10."Heavy Metal Monster"4:39
11."Assault"3:36
12."Climax: Theme For Astral Pirates"7:42

References

  1. Lenny White: The Adventures of Astral Pirates. Elektra Records. 1978.
  2. "Top Jazz Albums" (PDF). Cashbox . April 22, 1978.
  3. 1 2 Henderson, Alex. "Lenny White: The Adventures of Astral Pirates". allmusic.com. AllMusic.