Jazz In Silhouette
by Sun Ra And His Arkestra
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Jazz In Silhouette is ranked 2nd best out of 90 albums by Sun Ra on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sun Ra is Lanquidity which is ranked number 2105 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 780.
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Jazz In Silhouette track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| 12/11/2025 04:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,799 | 70/100 | |
| 11/13/2025 13:48 | TonySayers61 | 23,885 | 64/100 | |
| 06/09/2025 14:10 | Hyggevinyl | 4,278 | 72/100 | |
| 05/31/2025 14:29 | Elauqsapid | 2,720 | 64/100 | |
| 05/08/2025 00:48 | martintho | 4,702 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.
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He claimed to be from Saturn. I’m not sure that’s far enough out.
Fischman 12/30/2018 14:44 | #228334
Great album! Marvelous compositions that were cutting edge for the time but still not full blown avant garde. Some very nice trumpet work too.
AAL2014 12/27/2017 19:24 | #203995
This album is a masterclass on being able to balance laid back yet effective cool jazz/bop sounds with out of this world experimental jazz. Some mesmerizing moments on here, but some 'less is more' memorable hooks as well.
What a brilliantly layered record.
Absolutely brilliant, one of my favourite jazz albums. Could listen to on repeat and not get bored.
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