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John Gilmore Interview - The Wire July 1985
Val Wilmer, whose photographs have appeared in several Sun Ra releases, interviewed John Gilmore for the July 1985 issue of The Wire. Some time later, the Hinds brothers printed and bound it for their...
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Space Is The Place 40th Anniversary Edition
A lot has happened since I last posted - New Re-Leases, Re-Releases, and Re-Issues. Among the most exciting is the Space Is The Place Reissue Project currently underway at Pledgemusic.com. Though...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Disco 3000 (1978) CD & LP
The quartet of Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Michael Ray and Luqman Ali performed at Teatro Cilak in Milan on January 23, 1978, apparently at the very end of their extended stay in Italy. While their exact...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Dance of Innocent Passion (1981)
Dance of Innocent Passion was recorded at the Squat Theater in New York in 1980. The title cut is another one of those gloriously uplifting tunes that Sun Ra builds from the simplest of parts, and...
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Sun Ra - Media Dream (1978)
Media Dream is a live recording of the Sun Ra Quartet, from January of 1978 in Italy (all the quartet recordings were done that month). It's a mostly free date, with "Constellation" and "Media Dreams"...
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Sun Ra - Other Strange Worlds (Sneak Peek)
Previously unissued Sun Ra LP to be released by RoaratorioEarly 2014 should see the release of a previously unissued Sun Ra LP from 1966, entitled “Other Strange Worlds”. It will be released by...
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Sun Ra - Friendly Galaxy (1991)
In 1993 Leo Records released this wonderful 1991 Arkestra performance recorded at the Banlieus Blues Festival in Montreuil, France, a suburb of Paris. A very "jazzy" performance including Sun Ra...
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Sun Ra - The Mystery of Being (3xLP) (2011)
There have been several dodgy, grey-market reissues of the Horo records over the years and the latest is a vinyl-only box set, The Mystery of Being, released back in 2011 on the tiny French label,...
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Sun Ra - The Paris Tapes - Live At Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971 (2010)
Surprisingly, this remarkable and magnificently captured performance has never been issued on LP or CD before. Sun Ra and his larger than usual Arkestra are caught live here – dancers and all –...
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Sun Ra - New Space Poetry Release (2013)
Norton Records has just released Volume 4 in their Sun Ra Space Poetry series, 'My Way Is The Spaceways.' I got my copy from Dusty Grooves - you should get one, too. Give it a listen and you'll see...
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Sun Ra - Mayan Temples (1990)
One of the finest Sun Ra recordings from his final years, this effort is particularly recommended due to the many Ra keyboard solos and John Gilmore features, the latter of which include a tenor...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Solo Piano Volume 1 (1977)
Just as his reputation on he synthesizer was growing, Sun Ra began to play more piano again, and in a style that reached back further in jazz tradition than most would have suspected. But those who...
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Solar Flares
This is intended to be a repository of Contributions from kind readers. Please feel free to share links to any unpublished or out-of-print Sun Ra related music, video, pictures, or print material. Any...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Live in Paris at the "Gibus" (1975)
I believe most everyone agrees that this is an absolutely amazing album - stunning performances and great sound. Sun Ra (organ/electric vibraphone/space instruments/synthesizer/vocals) and his...
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Rocket Number Nine?
I know, I know. But it's better you learn this now than to hear about it on the street later...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Out Beyond the Kingdom Of (1974)
By 1974, the Impulse! deal was starting to bear fruit, with almost a dozen LPs coming out during the course of the year, including several reissues from the old Saturn catalog. In addition, the Saturn...
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Sun Ra on WNYC and at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, October 11, 1980
Great mention of Ra on Halloween by WNYC archivist John Passmore. Check it out. It includes a short interview segment and this performance from Whitney Hall on January 7, 1981.Will anyone with a copy...
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Sun Ra: Strange Worlds (2005)
Strange Worlds includes all of the music originally recorded between 1967-1970 as released on two separate albums: The SolarMyth Approach, Vol. 1 and The Solar Myth Approach, Vol. 2.The music presented...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Song of the Stargazers (1979?)
Song of the Stargazers (Saturn 487 or sometimes 6161) was released in 1979 and is mostly a hodgepodge of various live recordings from the nineteen-seventies. But one track was obviously recorded much...
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Dr. Thomas Stanley Interviewed - The Execution of Sun Ra
Early this summer, Dr. Thomas Stanley mounted a Kickstarter to fund his current book project: The Execution of Sun Ra - "A personal meditation and scholarly commentary on the late jazz icon's enduring...
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