Live from Soundscape (Sun Ra album)
1994 live album by Sun Ra Arkestra
Live from Soundscape | ||||
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Live album by Sun Ra Arkestra | ||||
Released | July 21, 1994 | |||
Recorded | November 10 & 11, 1979 | |||
Venue | Soundscape, NYC | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 140:36 | |||
Label | DIW DIW 388 | |||
Producer | Verna Gillis | |||
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Live from Soundscape is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in New York City in 1979 and released on the Japanese DIW label in 1994.[1] Initial pressings of the album contained a bonus CD featuring a lecture by Sun Ra.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 3 stars stating "Sound quality, while good, is not perfect, gearing the release more towards the serious fan".[2]
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Allmusic | [2] |
Track listing
All compositions by Sun Ra except where noted
Disc One:
- " Astro Black" – 11:52
- "Where There Is No Sun" – 4:05
- "Living in the Space Age" – 2:03
- "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson ) – 2:52
- "D.27" – 12:36
- "Watusi" – 12:23
- "Space Is the Place" – 7:56
- "We Travel the Space Ways " – 7:33
- "On Jupiter, the Skies are Always Blue" – 6:40
Disc Two:
- The Possibility of Altered Destiny – 72:40
Personnel
- Sun Ra – piano, keyboards
- Michael Ray – trumpet, vocals
- Walter Miller – trumpet
- Vincent Chancey – French horn
- Charles Stephens – trombone
- Marshall Allen – alto saxophone
- Skeeter McFarland – electric guitar
- Damon Choice – vibraphone
- Richard Williams – bass
- Luqman Ali – drums
- Atakatune – percussion
- June Tyson – vocals, dance
References
- ^ Sun Ra discography Archived March 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 3, 2014
- ^ a b Westergaard, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods