Sun Ra - Fate In A Pleasant Mood (2014)

Stylistically, "Fate in a Pleasant Mood" changes from ballads to bebop, from free jazz to Ellington intonations, from 12-bar blues to criminal jazz and cha-cha-cha. In his biography of Sun Ra, John Shved speaks about the proposals of the Space is the Place album: "To an experienced jazz listener at that time, they might have seemed either slightly inappropriate or indicative of a band with hidden intentions." Suspicions aside, Fate in a Pleasant Mood is an accessible album by the standards of the era and full of charms...