{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Sweet Earth Flying | type = Album | artist = Marion Brown | cover = Sweet Earth Flying.jpg | alt = | released = 1974 | recorded = May 6 & 7, 1974<br><small>Intermedia Sound Studios, Boston</small> | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 38:52 | label = Impulse!<br><small>AS 9275</small> | producer = Ed Michel | chronology = Marion Brown | prev_title = Geechee Recollections | prev_year = 1973 | next_title = Vista | next_year = 1975 }}
'''''Sweet Earth Flying''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1974 and released on the Impulse! label.<ref name="Impulse! Records discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9200-series/#as-9275 Impulse! Records discography] accessed May 1, 2012</ref> Along with ''Afternoon of a Georgia Faun'' and ''Geechee Recollections'', it was one of Brown's albums dedicated to the US state of Georgia.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gotrich |first=Lars |date=October 19, 2010 |title=Georgia Recollections: Goodbye, Marion Brown |publisher= |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2010/10/19/130669448/marion-brown?t=1584745204020 |website=npr.org |accessdate=March 20, 2020}}</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = Tom Hull – on the Web |rev2Score = B+<ref>{{cite web |last=Hull |first=Tom |url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/shop/jazz-60s.html |title=Jazz (1960–70s) (Reference) |website=Tom Hull – on the Web |accessdate=April 21, 2023}}</ref> }} The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album {{frac|4|1|2}} stars stating "''Sweet Earth Flying'' is arguably Marion Brown's finest work and certainly one of the underappreciated treasures of '70s jazz... Very highly recommended to open-eared jazz fans of all tastes".<ref name="Allmusic">Olewnick, B. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/sweet-earth-flying-r135911/review Allmusic Review] accessed May 1, 2012</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Marion Brown except as indicated'' # "Sweet Earth Flying Part 1" - 3:38 # "Sweet Earth Flying Part 3" - 5:55 # "Sweet Earth Flying Part 4: Prince Willie" (Brown, Bill Hasson) - 5:55 # "Sweet Earth Flying Part 5" - 5:06 # "Eleven Light City Part 1" - 7:16 # "Eleven Light City Part 2" - 2:08 # "Eleven Light City Part 3" - 5:50 # "Eleven Light City Part 4" - 3:04
==Personnel== * Marion Brown — alto saxophone, soprano saxophone * Muhal Richard Abrams (tracks 2–8), Paul Bley (tracks 1, 2, 5–8) — piano, electric piano, organ * James Jefferson — bass, electric bass * Steve McCall — drums, percussion * Bill Hasson — percussion, narration
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Category:Impulse! Records albums Category:Marion Brown albums Category:1974 albums