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Sun Ra

1985-01-05

USA - Columbus, OH
Stache’s

Version: Onstage Recording

Setlist

1st set:
1 untitled improvisation [tp, eb; perc; eg; ob, eb; eb, perc; tb; EVI; tb; EVI; eb; as, bcl, bars coda] / Door of the Cosmos (Ra)
2 A Lost Horizon (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
3 untitled improvisation [d solo; eb, d duet only]
4 untitled improvisation [ens riffs]
5 Tapestry from an Asteroid (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
6 (The World Is Waiting) For the Sunrise (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
7 Discipline 27-11 (Ra) / Calling Planet Earth (Ra) / Sea of Immortality (Ra) / This World Is Not My Home (Ra) / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (trad.) / I’ll Wait for You (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
8 Nuclear War (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
9 unidentified blues [p; riffs; eb; p; riffs; p]
10 Queer Notions (Hawkins) [inc]
11 Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) [inc]
12 unidentified Swing piece (Ra)
13 Say It Isn’t So (Berlin) [JG voc]
14 Drop Me Off in Harlem (Ellington)
15 The Place of Five Points (Ra)
16 Mack the Knife (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) [JJ voc; SR, JJ voc]
17 Space Is the Place (Ra) [JT, ens voc] / We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) [SR, ens voc; inc]

2nd set:
1 Never Never Land (Ra) [JT, ens voc] / untitled improvisation [Allen, EVI; Inf-d]
2 When There Is No Sun (Ra) [JT, JG, ens voc]
3 untitled improvisation [cond ens; Allen, as; Omoe, cacl joins in; Thompson, bars joins]
4 untitled improvisation [eb; cond ens; Gilmore, ts]
5 I Want to Be Happy (Caesar-Youmans) [JG, TH, JJ voc; JJ, TH, JT voc; JJ voc; JT, SR voc]
6 I’m Gonna Unmask the Batman (Gibson-Abraham) [SR, ens voc]
7 East of the Sun (Bowman) [JG voc]
8 Sophisticated Lady (Ellington)
9 Cocktails for Two (Coslow-Johnston) [p, Allen, as, eb, d only]
10 Over the Rainbow (Arlen-Harburg) [p only]
11 Christopher Columbus (Razaf-Berry)
12 Smile (Chaplin) [JT voc]
13 Limehouse Blues (Braham-Furber)
14 Sunset on the Nile (Ra) [SR voc]
15 Theme of the Stargazers (Ra) [SR, ens voc] / Door of the Cosmos (Ra) [ens voc]
16 closing announcements

Info

203:00 min
FLAC
onstage recording>?>cassette>Tascam 202 MKVII>Sony PCM-D50(16 bit/44.1 kHz SBM on)>audacity>flac
Audience
1.17gb

Notes

According to Jack Lefton, there is a soundboard/audience tape from this date. The first and second sets both run 87 minutes, and neither is quite complete.

Avreeayl Amen Ra made a longer tape (up to 225 minutes) on the bandstand during this gig. Avreeayl’s tape includes a complete blues in the first set (this is incomplete on the soundboard/audience tape), then follows with most of a “Queer Notions” that is missing from the other tape, picking up partway through the “Prelude to a Kiss,” which is complete on the soundboard recording. At the end of the second set, Amen’s third tape (unfortunately very poorly recorded) continues to the end of “Sunset on the Nile” and another 20 minutes or so through the last two pieces.