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Sun Ra

1985-01-04

USA - Columbus, OH
Stache’s

Version: Onstage Recording

Setlist

1st set:
1 untitled improvisation [Inf-d; d, eb, perc; bars; ens; ob, tb, perc,~(tb, eb, d, perc; Inf-d; tb, as, fl, eb; eb]
2 untitled improvisation [cacl; funky riff; cacl; cond ens]
3 Sunology / The Lion of the Heavens (Ra) [JT, ens voc] / History-Mystery (Ra) [JT, ens voc] / I Am the Ambassador of the Emperor of the Omniverse (Ra) [SR, JT voc] / I Have Many Names (Ra) [SR, JT voc] / Mystery, Mr. Ra (Ra) [SR, JT, ens voc] / Bad Truth (Ra) [SR, JT voc]
4 Discipline 27-11 (Ra) /You Need a Different Kind of World (Ra) [SR declamation] / Sea of Immortality (Ra) [JT, SR voc]
5 untitled improvisation [Allen, as only]
6 unidentified Swing piece (Ra)
7 untitled ballad (Ra) [p, eb, brushes only]
8 Auld Lang Syne Blues (Ra) [SR voc]
9 East of the Sun (Bowman) [JG voc]
10 Mack the Knife (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) [JJ voc; SR, JJ voc]
11 Carefree (Ra)
12 Sunset on the Nile (Ra) [SR voc]
13 Yeah Man! (Sissle-Henderson)
14 We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) [JG, ens voc; JG, SR, ens voc]

2nd set:
1 untitled improvisation [Allen, EVI and Amen, cymbals only]
2 untitled improvisation [funky tb and eb; eb with riffs]
3 Never Never Land (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
4 untitled improvisation [cond ens; Allen, as; Omoe, cacl; as, cacl duet; cond ens; eb; d; eb; Gilmore, ts]
5 Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini) [JT voc; JG voc]
6 I’ll Never Be the Same (Kahn-Malneck-Signorelli)
7 Day Dream (Strayhorn)
8 Big John’s Special (H. Henderson)
9 unidentified blues (Ra) [p, eb; riffs; p; eb; p]
10 Watusi (Pitts-Sherrill)
11 Fate in a Pleasant Mood (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
12 Who in the World Do You Love? (Ra) [SR, ens voc]

Info

166:00 min
FLAC
onstage recording>?>cassette>Tascam 202 MKVII>Sony PCM-D50(16 bit/44.1 kHz SBM on)>audacity>flac

According to Jack Lefton, there is a soundboard/audience tape from this date The first set runs 84 minutes (leaving out the beginning of the improvisation that opened the set; Lefton’s tape picks up with the passage for Hill’s trombone and Radford’s electric bass), and the second is 72 minutes long (it omits most of “Watusi,” including only a couple of minutes for drums and percussion at the end). Tunes and personnel identified by rlc.

Avreeayl Amen Ra also made a tape on the bandstand which has been checked by ct. Amen’s first tape runs 90 minutes from the beginning of the first set to the end of “Sunset on the Nile.” The second tape continues from there to the end of the second set, so it is essentially complete.
Audience
1gb

Notes

Sun Ra (p, syn, voc)
poss. Fred Adams (tp)
Al Evans (fig)
Tyrone Hill (tb, voc)
Marshall Allen (as, fl, ob, EVI, perc)
John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc)
Eloe Omoe (as, bcl, cacl, perc)
Danny Ray Thompson (bars, as, fl, bgo)
James Jacson (bsn, fl, Inf-d, voc)
Rollo Radford (eb)
Avreeayl Amen Ra (d)
unidentified (cga)
June Tyson (voc, dance)
unidentified female (dance, voc)