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Sun Ra

1985-10-27

Germany - Hamburg
Unknown

Version: Onstage Recording

Setlist

1st set:
1 unidentified (Ra) [hand perc; Gilmore, ts theme; perc; Inf-d; Gilmore, ts, and, Allen as; theme returns]
2 Tapestry from an Asteroid (Ra) [JT voc]
3 The Sun Is on His Way (Ra) [JT voc; Ra’s entrance]
4 untitled improvisations [Allen or Tyler, as over perc, joined by cacl]
5 untitled improvisation [eb; inc]
6 Discipline 27-11 (Ra) / Children of the Sun (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
7 unidentified blues [p; b; Wilson, ts; eb; p]
8 Queer Notions (Hawkins)
9 On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) (Lane-Lerner) [SR voc]
10 Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington)
11 ’Round Midnight (Hanighen-Monk-Williams)
12 Can You Take It? (Henderson)
13 Over the Rainbow (Arlen-Harburg) [p only]
14 Mack the Knife (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) [JJ voc]

2nd set:
15 untitled improvisation [Inf-d and d; perc; ob; slide whistle; inc.]

Info

95:00 min
FLAC
onstage recording>?>cassette>Tascam 202 MKVII>Sony PCM-D50(16 bit/44.1 kHz SBM on)>audacity>flac

Avreeayl Amen Ra recorded a 90-minute tape on the bandstand (Len Bukowski). The material from “Can You Take It?” onward also appears on a tape said to come from Seattle, WA, November 20, 1985. Tunes and personnel ct.
Audience
633mb

Notes

Sun Ra (p, syn, voc)
Ronnie Brown (tp)
Tyrone Hill (tb); Marshall Allen (as, fl, ob, perc)
John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc)
Ronald Wilson (ts, picc)
Danny Ray Thompson (bars, as, fl, perc)
prob. Charles Tyler (as, bars)
Eloe Omoe (as, bcl, cacl, fl, perc)
James Jacson (bsn, fl, Inf-d, voc)
Bruce Edwards (eg)
John Ore (b)
Rollo Radford (eb)
Avreeayl Amen Ra (d, sanza, perc)
June Tyson (voc, dance)
Myriam Broche (dance)