Interstellar Low Ways

Interstellar Low Ways
Studio album by Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra
Released	1966[1]
Recorded	March 6, 1959 – October 1960, Chicago[2]
Genre	Post-bop
Length	31:06
Label	El Saturn
Producer	Alton Abraham
Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra chronology
Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1959) Interstellar Low Ways (1966) Fate in a Pleasant Mood (1960)

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Interstellar Low Ways is an album recorded by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra, mostly recorded in Chicago, 1960, and released in 1967^{[1][4][better source needed]} on his own El Saturn label. Originally titled Rocket Number Nine, the album had acquired its present name, and the red-on-white sleeve by Claude Dangerfield, by 1969.^[2] The album is known particularly for the two songs featuring chants, "Interplanetary Music" and "Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus". These would stay in the Arkestra's repertoire for many years.

Rocket Number Nine points toward the music that the Arkestra would be playing on the lower East Side of New York City. The tenor sax solo isn't the work of John Coltrane in 1962, but of John Gilmore in 1960. And not even Ornette Coleman's bassists were playing like Ronnie Boykins at this date.^[1]

— Robert Campbell

When reissued by Evidence, Interstellar Low Ways was included as the second half of a CD that also featured the whole of Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth (1966).

Lady Gaga references the titular line of "Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus" in her song "Venus".^{[citation needed]}