# Sweet Earth Flying

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Sweet Earth Flying
| type       = Album
| artist     = [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown)
| cover      = Sweet Earth Flying.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1974
| recorded   = May 6 & 7, 1974<br><small>Intermedia Sound Studios, [Boston](/source/Boston)</small>
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Jazz](/source/Jazz)
| length     = 38:52
| label      = [Impulse!](/source/Impulse!_Records)<br><small>AS 9275</small>
| producer   = Ed Michel
| chronology = [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown)
| prev_title = [Geechee Recollections](/source/Geechee_Recollections)
| prev_year  = 1973
| next_title = [Vista](/source/Vista_(Marion_Brown_album))
| next_year  = 1975
}}

'''''Sweet Earth Flying''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist [Marion Brown](/source/Marion_Brown) recorded in 1974 and released on the [Impulse!](/source/Impulse!_Records) 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](/source/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](/source/Allmusic)''
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
|rev2 = [Tom Hull – on the Web](/source/Tom_Hull_%E2%80%93_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](/source/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](/source/Marion_Brown) &mdash; [alto saxophone](/source/alto_saxophone), [soprano saxophone](/source/soprano_saxophone)
* [Muhal Richard Abrams](/source/Muhal_Richard_Abrams) (tracks 2–8), [Paul Bley](/source/Paul_Bley) (tracks 1, 2, 5–8) &mdash; [piano](/source/piano), [electric piano](/source/electric_piano), [organ](/source/Electronic_organ)
* James Jefferson &mdash; [bass](/source/double_bass), [electric bass](/source/electric_bass)
* [Steve McCall](/source/Steve_McCall_(drummer)) &mdash; [drums](/source/drum_kit), [percussion](/source/percussion)
* Bill Hasson &mdash; percussion, [narration](/source/narration)

==References==
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Category:Impulse! Records albums
Category:Marion Brown albums
Category:1974 albums

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