Encounter Near Venus
# THCD-17
Music by George Russell
Shelly Manne
Larry Bunker
Victor Feldman
Colin Bailey
Wally Snow
Shelly Manne, Larry Bunker, Victor Feldman, Colin Bailey and Wally Snow, well-known jazz musicians, are the remarkable percussionists on this recording.
Scene One - The Forest That Used To Be
01 Introduction (3:58)
02 The children walk through the forest (1:13)
03 Uncle Bill tells about the journey to be
04 Dance of Wonder
05 The Space Ship
06 Uncle Bill (1:07)
07 Kevin's Dance (1:23)
08 Patricia's Dance (1:23)
09 Christopher's Dance
10 Arabella's Dance
11 Uncle Bill and the children board the space ship (1:15)
12 The Menacing Ka (the dragon)
Scene Two - The Field of Lights
13 The Field of Lights
14 Saturn - March, Venus, Mercury, Mars; planets reprise (7:28)
15 The Space Ship
16 The See Such (1:31)
17 The Lobster (1:26)
18 See Horses (1:02)
19 The Octopus (1:00)
20 Uncle Bill and the Lumens
21 Children's Dance
22 Mermaid's Dance (2:48)
23 Coda
Scene Three - The Cavern of Ka
24 The Cavern of Ka (2:00)
25 Introduction
26 The Mermaid (2:09)
27 Dance of the Kavanized Mermaid (1:27)
28 Mirror, Mirror (The Flying Saucer in the Seesuch) (2:27)
29 Ka's Defeat
30 Introduction - Ka's Cavern, Ka's Dance
31 Dance of the Mermaids and Arabella (2:18)
32 The Queen's Dance (5:05)
Scene Four - Jubilation and Grand Farewell
33 Introduction
34 Grand Parade (3:14)
35 Dance of the Impatient Wise One (Uncle Bill) (1:13)
36 Lumen's Dances
37 Lumen's solo dance (1:03)
38 Waltz, Interlude (1:04)
39 Conclusion (including Dance of Wonder, reprise) (3:50)