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Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label
On sale date: October 25, 2022
Drawn from private collections around the world, this is the first comprehensive collection of the Saturn label’s printed record covers, along with hundreds of the best hand-designed, one-of-a-kind sleeves and disc labels decorated by Sun Ra and members of his Arkestra.
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WerbungRunde 3 (letzte) von Sun Ra in Kairo kommt gerade heraus:
https://sunrastrut.bandcamp.com/album/sun-ra-arkestra-meets-salah-ragab-in-egyptIch bleibe da aber bei der „Golden Years“-CD von Leo Records, die einerseits eh schon hier steht und andererseits über eine halbe Stunde mehr Musik enthält.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1337979-The-Sun-Ra-Arkestra-Meets-Salah-Ragab-Plus-The-Cairo-Jazz-Band-And-The-Cairo-Free-Jazz-Ensemble-In-E--
"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #151: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv – 09.04., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbaFür Leute aus Köln und Umgebung, die noch nichts vorhaben:
das Arkestra spielt nachher im „Stadtgarten“:https://www.stadtgarten.de/programm/sun-ra-arkestra-4618
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Free Jazz doesn't seem to care about getting paid, it sounds like truth. (Henry Rollins, Jan. 2013)Die Elbphilharmonie hat ihr neues Programm 2022/2023 vorgestellt.
Sun Ra Arkestra
So., 13. November 2022
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
(Großer Saal)https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/programm/sun-ra-arkestra/18262
https://www.ndr.de/kultur/elbphilharmonie/Saisonvorschau-Elbphilharmonie-fuer-die-Spielzeit-2022-23,saisonvorschau198.html--
Free Jazz doesn't seem to care about getting paid, it sounds like truth. (Henry Rollins, Jan. 2013)So schnell (oder langsam) vergeht die Zeit.
Schon wieder Sun Ra Arkestra in HH?Habe mir gerade eine Karte bestellt.
Diesmal mit Marshall Allen. Ich brauche
das Original-Gequietsche.……………………………………………………
Nachtrag (21.06.2023): am Tag nach dem Hanburger Konzert
gibt es noch einen Auftritt in Jena (Do., 17.08.2023).
Auf der Veranstalter-Website ist eine Besetzungsliste
beigefügt:
Cecil Brooks (trumpet)
Chris Hemingway (alt sax)
Tara Middleton (vocals)
KNoel Scott (vocal, saxes)
James Stewart (tenor sax)
Elson Nascimento (perc, surdo)
Vincent Chancey (french horn)
Ramon Valle (piano)
Tyler Mitchell (bass)
George Gray (drums)
Jose da Silva (perc)
Adriene G. Davis (trombone)
Alex Harding (baritone)
Carl Le Blanc (guitar)
Michael Ray or Kevin Batchelor (trumpet)
>>>Also möglicherweise ohne Marshall Allen<<<
……………………………………………………https://kampnagel.de/produktionen/sf-23-sun-ra-arkestra
https://www.kulturarena.de/programm/the-sun-ra-arkestra.htmlWarum das Bild im Hintergrund blau ist?
Keine Ahnung. Es stammt original vom Mai 2019
vor der Alten Feuerwache in Mannheim. Ich finde
keinen Link. Und meine Kopie des (Original)Bildes
werde ich dann lieber nicht verbreiten. Es stammt
von Sibylle Zerr.Zwischenzeitlich viel Spaß hiermit:
Sun Ra in Ost-Berlin. Ab 38:30 wird es echt lustig.
Space Is The Place!
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Free Jazz doesn't seem to care about getting paid, it sounds like truth. (Henry Rollins, Jan. 2013)Sun Ra Tribute (Nuclear War):
https://redhot.bandcamp.com/album/red-hot-ra-nuclear-war
Springt mich jetzt spontan nicht so direkt an
wie z.B. Yo La Tengo damals. Vielleicht muss man
das öfter hören.--
Free Jazz doesn't seem to care about getting paid, it sounds like truth. (Henry Rollins, Jan. 2013)
AHMED ABDULLAH: A STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD
September 2023
Hardcover $50.00
Paperback $30.00Release Date: September 5, 2023.
In this captivating memoir, the first full-length account of life in the Arkestra by any of its members, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts two decades of traveling the spaceways with the inimitable composer, pianist, and big-band leader Sun Ra. Gigging everywhere from the legendary Bed-Stuy venue the East to the National Stadium in Lagos, Abdullah paints a vivid picture of the rise of loft jazz and the influence of Pan-Africanism on creative music, while capturing radical artistic and political developments across Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s. Richly illustrated with more than fifty pages of photographs and posters from Adger Cowans, Marilyn Nance, Val Wilmer, and others, A Strange Celestial Road interweaves the author’s own moving story—his battles with addiction, spiritual development, and life as a working class performer—with enthralling tales of tutelage under Cal Massey, collaborations with the likes of Ed Blackwell, Marion Brown, and Andrew Cyrille, and profound, occasionally confounding, mentorship by Sun Ra. Originally written in the 1990s with the help of Nuyorican poet Louis Reyes Rivera and published now for the first time, with a foreword by Salim Washington, A Strange Celestial Road is not only an autobiography, but a history of a remarkable and under-documented movement in music.
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AHMED ABDULLAH joined the Sun Ra Arkestra as a trumpeter in 1974 and remained a member for more than twenty years. Born in Harlem in 1947, he became an important figure in the New York loft jazz movement, forming the group Abdullah in 1972, and going on to found the Melodic Art-Tet with Charles Brackeen, Ronnie Boykins, and Roger Blank in the early 1970s and The Group with Marion Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille in 1986. Abdullah is a co-founder of the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, has been the music director of Dianne McIntyre’s Sounds in Motion Dance Company, and is currently music director at the historic venue Sistas’ Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He has been a music instructor at Carnegie Hall and Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and teaches at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan and an elementary school in central Brooklyn.
LOUIS REYES RIVERA (1945–2012) was a Puerto Rican poet from Brooklyn. Known as the “Dean of Nuyorican Poetics,” he led creative writing workshops in community centers and prisons across New York, lectured on Latin and Black diasporic history and literature at New York colleges including Hunter, Boricua, Pratt, and Stony Brook; and was a leader in the 1969 student movement at CUNY, leading to the founding of its department of ethnic studies. Rivera was also a prolific editor, working on books such as John Oliver Killens’s Great Black Russian: The Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin, and a translator of works by Puerto Rican poets Clemente Soto Velez and Otto Rene Castillo. His own poetry collections include Who Pays the Cost (1977), This One for You (1983), and Scattered Scripture (1996), which received an award from the Latin American Writers Institute.
SALIM WASHINGTON is a saxophonist, composer, and scholar based in Durban, South Africa, where he is a professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is a co-author, with Farah Jasmine Griffin, of Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (2009) and a contributor to Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho (2013).
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„There are other worlds they have not told you of,“ Sun Ra said. The trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, a longtime member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, has journeyed through several of those extraterrestrial worlds of sound, and returned to Earth to tell the tale, in this invigorating memoir of a life in Black Creative music.
~ Adam Shatz, US editor of the London Review of Books
In this first book-length reportage from behind the scenes of Sun Ra’s world, Ahmed Abdullah manages to express the omniverse-exploding wonder of Ra as well as the musical mechanics of the Arkestra and its complex interpersonal politics. His invaluable and unique perspective—focused on the woefully overlooked work of the band from the 1970s forward—is brilliantly articulated in these information-packed, often hilarious pages, which are essentially impossible not to turn.
~ John Corbett, author of Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
A rare personal glimpse into the life of one of the twentieth century’s most monumental and imposing figures.
~ Matthew Blackwell, The Wire
https://www.blankforms.org/publications/ahmed-abdullah-a-strange-celestial-road
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #151: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv – 09.04., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbasuper!
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Artikel von gestern (The Guardian):
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/02/a-man-cannot-learn-without-discipline-jazz-guru-marshall-allen-on-life-with-sun-ra-and-turning-100Und (damit nichts verloren geht) ein Link zur neuen VÖ „Paradiso 1970 Amsterdam“:
https://forum.rollingstone.de/foren/topic/funde-aus-dem-archiv/page/107/#post-12280433--
Free Jazz doesn't seem to care about getting paid, it sounds like truth. (Henry Rollins, Jan. 2013)
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