Visions (Sun Ra album)

Visions
Visions
Studio album by Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson
Released	1978
Recorded	July 11, 1978
Studio	C.I. Recording Studio, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	61:34
Label	SteepleChase Records; SCS 1126
Producer	Walt Dickerson
Sun Ra chronology
Walt Dickerson chronology
Original Cover

Visions is a duet album issued on LP format credited to Walt Dickerson (with Sun Ra), and later reissued on CD credited to Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	9/10^[7]

In his review for AllMusic, Stewart Mason stated: "Visions matches Walt Dickerson's cool vibes with Sun Ra's idiosyncratic piano in a way that shows both men's contrasting styles to surprisingly cohesive effect... Fans of Sun Ra's outer space mythology and chanting lyrics will have to look elsewhere for their fun, but fans of Ra's exceptionally gifted and distinctive free jazz piano playing should be fascinated. Dickerson, one of the few jazz vibraphonists to have little audible debt to Lionel Hampton, also plays with his characteristic exploratory but controlled style".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Walt Dickerson.

"Astro" – 7:50
"Utopia" – 8:10
"Visions" – 2.50
"Constructive Neutrons" – 10:10
"Space Dance" – 8:10
"Light Years" – 15:18 Bonus track on CD reissue
"Prophesy" – 9:06 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Walt Dickerson: Vibraphone
Sun Ra: Piano

References

^ SteepleChase Records discography accessed March 29, 2017
^ Fitzgerald, M., Walt Dickerson discography accessed March 29, 2017
^ SteepleChase Productions ApS accessed March 29, 2017
^ ^a ^b Mason, Stewart. Visions – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 61. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 386, 388.

External links

Extensive Sun Ra Discography

[1] SteepleChase Records discography accessed March 29, 2017

[2] Fitzgerald, M., Walt Dickerson discography accessed March 29, 2017

[3] SteepleChase Productions ApS accessed March 29, 2017

[Allmusic-4] Mason, Stewart. Visions – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 29, 2017.

[RSJRG-5] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 61. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-6] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[SP-7] Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 386, 388.

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v t e 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 Danny Ray Thompson
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 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 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 I, Pharaoh Sunrise in Different Dimensions Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion Thunder of the Gods

v t e Walt Dickerson
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not release.
As leader	This Is Walt Dickerson! (1961) A Sense of Direction (1961) Relativity (1962) To My Queen (1962) Jazz Impressions of Lawrence of Arabia (1963) Walt Dickerson Plays Unity (1964) Impressions of a Patch of Blue (1965) Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things (1974) Peace (1975) Walt Dickerson 1976 (1976) Serendipity (1976) Shades of Love (1977) To My Queen Revisited (1978) To My Son (1978) Life Rays (1982)
As co-leader	Divine Gemini (with Richard Davis, 1977) Tenderness (with Richard Davis, 1977) Vision (with Sun Ra, 1978) Landscape with Open Door (with Pierre Dørge, 1978) I Hear You John (with Jimmi Johnsun, 1978)
Arranger	Sounds from Rikers Island (Elmo Hope, 1963)