Sun Ra

LIMITED 3LP BOX SET (BLACK VINYL)

Includes a 24-page booklet printed with silver ink on Fedrigoni Ultra Black paper.

Recorded live at Teatro Giulio Cesare on March 28, 1980, comprising an astounding 27 compositions, including the highly celebrated “Astro Black”, “Mr. Mystery”, “Romance of Two Planets”, “Space Is the Place”, “We Travel the Spaceways”, and “Calling Planet Earth”, over six vinyl sides. High among the greatest live gigs by the Arkestra captured on tape, carefully mastered by Matt Bordin at Outside Inside Studio, “Live in Rome 1980” is a near-perfect snapshot of the band’s versatility and range, including many of their most notable and famous songs, as well as striking renditions of the Horace Henderson, penned Benny Goodman number “Big John’s Special”, Fletcher Henderson’s “Yeah Man!”, and “Limehouse Blues”, displaying Ra’s willingness to address and rework the entire, diverse history of jazz in a single go.

PERSONNEL:

Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Percussion – Noel Scott
Alto Saxophone, Flute, Oboe – Marshall Allen
Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Danny Ray Thompson
Drums – Chris Henderson, Eric "Samurai" Walker
Piano, Keyboards, Vocals – Sun Ra
Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Percussion – Kenny Williams
Tenor Saxophone, Percussion – John Gilmore
Trumpet – Michael Ray
Vocals – June Tyson

TRACKS:

A1 Kora And Drum Intro
A2 Pleiades
A3 Cosmo-Communication
B1 Tapestry From An Asteroid
B2 Astro Black / The Strange Worlds In My Mind
B3 The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / Mr. Mystery
B4 Discipline 27
B5 Romance Of Two Planets
C1 Blues Roma
C2 Big John's Special
C3 Yeah Man!
C4 Springtime Again
C5 Limehouse Blues
D1 Watusa
D2 Lights On A Satellite
D3 Spontaneous Simplicity
E1 Enlightenment
E2 Space Is The Place / We Travel The Spaceways
E3 Nothing Is
E4 Children Of The Sun
F1 Calling Planet Earth / On Jupiter
F2 Hit That Jive Jack
F3 King Porter Stomp
F4 Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space