SUN RA audio: New Year's 1980 set 2 / 11:00 PM. audio/slideshow

SUN RA audio: New Year's 1980 Detroit Jazz Center 11:00 PM set 12/31/1981
2nd Set - 11:00 PM
Disc Twenty-Three (59:40)
Untitled Improv (Percussion, Kora)
When There Is No Sun / Are You Spotless?
Discipline 27-11 / I Am The Tempter / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Discipline 27-11
Auld Lang Syne
Big John's Special
El Is The Sound Of Joy
Beyond The Purple Star Zone (Journey To Stars Beyond) (Part 1)
The World Of Africa
Rose Room
Disc Twenty-Four (57:21)
Halloween In Harlem
Journey To Saturn / Saturn's Rings
You Got To Head Out To Space One Day / Never Never Land
Everything Is Space
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Strange Worlds / Black Myth
Medicine For A Nightmare / Untitled Improv
Rocket Number Nine / The Space Age Is Here To Stay
Face The Music
Disc Twenty-Five (59:47)
St. Louis Blues
Watusi
Sunology / The Lion Of The Heavens
Planet Earth
Third Heaven / Why Go To The Moon? We Travel The Spaceways / Imagination
Announcer
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone, Flute, Kora - Marshall Allen
Bass - Richard Williams
Bass, Flute - Danny Ray Thompson
Bassoon, Drum [Ancient Egyptian Infinity], Vocals - James Jacson
Drums - Luqman Ali
Electric Guitar - Skeeter McFarland, Taylor Richardson
French Horn - Vincent Chancey
Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Vocals - Sun Ra
Tenor Saxophone, Vocals - John Gilmore
Trombone - Tony Bethel
Trumpet [Possibly] - Walter Miller
Trumpet, Vocals - Michael Ray
Vocals, Performer [Dance] - June Tyson
taken from Bandcamp for the Beyond The Purple Star Zone release which was itself taken from the Complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency:
From The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra (2nd ed.), by Robert Campbell and Christopher Trent, we offer this preface:
"The Arkestra was 'in residency' at the Jazz Center in Detroit for nearly a week (a poster in the possession of [drummer] Samarai Celestial advertises 11 shows [from December 26, 1980 to January 1, 1981]). Rick Steiger and John Sinclair produced the events. Paintings from Ra's private collection were on display in the hall; films from his collection were shown, and a slide show called Sun Ra Through the Ages, featuring photography by Leni Sinclair, was presented."
From over 26 hours of music (which included some afternoon workshops) recorded on six dates, material was culled for two LPs released on Ra's own label: Beyond the Purple Star Zone (released 1981), and Oblique Parallax (released 1982). The title track of Beyond the Purple Star Zone and the first section of "Journey Stars Beyond" on Oblique Parallax are the same performance, but with different mixes.
Though nominally credited to Sun Ra's Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra (a shifting cast of Arkestra mainstays and Detroit-based players), Beyond the Purple Star Zone in fact features the leader performing solo on tracks 3 and 5 (there's a 15-second Samarai Celestial drum intro on 3), while title track 1 offers the trio of Ra on keyboards, Vincent Chancey on French horn, and Celestial on drums. And despite four horn players listed in the personnel, there are few horn parts; other than Chancey on track 1, the others are on track 2 (with sax virtuoso John Gilmore singing), a reinvention of Ra's evergreen "Rocket Number 9."
The audio quality of these recordings is comparable to many captured Sun Ra stage shows: flawed, but soulful; mid-fidelity, but high-octane. We have attempted to remove as much distortion as possible from the horns, voices, and keyboards, but ultimately this noise is part of the documented performance and cannot easily be subtracted by existing technology. File under: "Garage Jazz."
In 2010 the British label Art Yard packaged the contents of both LPs on a commercial CD, which included fascinating reminiscences by Steiger, co-producer of Sun Ra's historic Detroit stand. Other soundboard tapes from the Detroit concerts have circulated among fans over the years, and some have been issued on inferior-quality bootlegs.
Before the first concert, Ra was reportedly given the Key to the City by an aide to Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
- I.C.
credits
released May 2, 2015
2015, Enterplanetary Koncepts
All tracks produced by Sun Ra
Transferred from disc by Timothy Stollenwerk
Digital restoration by Timothy Stollenwerk and Irwin Chusid
Special thanks to Craig Koon
All titles composed by Sun Ra © Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI)
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