In response to a remark I made in a previous post, I was recently asked about Charles Blass, former program director at WKCR-FM (currently on sabbatical) and if it is possible to hear some of his Sun Ra radio broadcasts. To my knowledge, none of WKCR's shows are archived. Fortunately, last spring I made an effort to record the Sun Ra Arrival Day celebration. In celebration of the anniversary of Sun Ra's arrival on planet earth, WKCR-FM broadcast 9 hours (in two parts) of Sun Ra's music on May 21st and 22nd, 2010. Unfortunately, I missed the first 4 hour segment but managed to record the stream for the 2nd part.
I quickly realized that trying to manage a 5 hour track on an iPod isn't much fun so I broke down the show into 5 segments of approximately 1 hour each. I hope you enjoy this show as much as I have and if anyone was able to capture the first segment, please share!
Regarding Mr. Blass, I found this bit of information about him at All About Jazz:
Charles has programmed & hosted on WKCR (http://WKCR.org) for over two decades and in the community am involved in production, engineering, management and promotion. His primary program is 'Audio Gumbo', in the 'New Music' department; he also does Jazz and World shows. Charles especially enjoys producing & mixing live radio concerts. See http://www.lovevolv.org for Radio Calendar and other listings.
Charles Blass is a music and content advisor. Charles has extensive experience as a music writer, radio programmer, producer and Internet content developer. He has written liner notes for a number of albums and contributed to several books on music. Charles is the Founder and Director of Lovevolv, Inc, a not-for-profit arts & education company, and Co-Founder of the new music network LiveWired Music, http://livewiredmusic.org .
Charles is now developing content and an artist community at http://ArtistOwned.com - See http://www.lovevolv.org/
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Regarding Mr. Blass, I found this bit of information about him at All About Jazz:
Charles has programmed & hosted on WKCR (http://WKCR.org) for over two decades and in the community am involved in production, engineering, management and promotion. His primary program is 'Audio Gumbo', in the 'New Music' department; he also does Jazz and World shows. Charles especially enjoys producing & mixing live radio concerts. See http://www.lovevolv.org for Radio Calendar and other listings.
Charles Blass is a music and content advisor. Charles has extensive experience as a music writer, radio programmer, producer and Internet content developer. He has written liner notes for a number of albums and contributed to several books on music. Charles is the Founder and Director of Lovevolv, Inc, a not-for-profit arts & education company, and Co-Founder of the new music network LiveWired Music, http://livewiredmusic.org .
Charles is now developing content and an artist community at http://ArtistOwned.com - See http://www.lovevolv.org/
I originally posted this on the fantastic blog Pathway to Unknown Worlds on May 25, 2010 which happened to be Marshall Allen's birthday. I had planned on saving this post for Adventure-Equation until May 2011 but I thought if one person was interested in hearing this now, then perhaps others would be too. I love the picture below of Marshall Allen so much that I just couldn't bear to remove it (despite the fact that it's nowhere close to his birthday right now).
Happy (belated) Birthday, Maestro Allen!
The last time I saw the Arkesta was in Durham, NC a couple of years ago on a double bill with the Minus big band. The Arkestra had the second part of the evening and while they were setting up, I was amazed at how well Marshall was moving around for a guy in his eighties. If he needed to make an adjustment to a piece of equipment on the floor, he’d just do a deep knee bend, fix what needed to be fixed, and stand back without needing any help, not even using a solid object to brace himself. When I saw him later I said ‘Marshall Allen – when you gonna get old man?” He looked at me and asked “What’s that?” I shook my head and said “I guess it’s nothing you need to worry about.” What’s he going to be this May, 87 earth years old? On his way to infinity I suppose.
ReplyDelete:-) not only that, but he also has to put up with the arkestra, and sometimes those guys can get rambuctious! :-)
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Thx for sharing, yotte.
ReplyDeleteMost likely this was originally broadcast on WKCR on 2006-05-22. Parts of a lossless Pre-Fm version were seeded on www.dimeadozen.org some times ago:
cf. old Dime torrent # 97322 - 2006-05-27: Sun Ra Arrival Day Broadcast-Early Rare 1970-1971 / Mix created by Steve Antonelli for broadcast on the May 22, 2006 Sun Ra Arrival Day Marathon Broadcast / Track 1: 10\14\1971 - Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Radio Broadcast on YLE network / Track 2: 11\18\1971 (or it might be 10\18\1971) - Paradiso Amsterdam, Holland; Radio Broadcast / Track 3: 11\11\1971 - Aula van de T.H., Delft, Netherlands; Radio Broadcast / This mix was played in it's entirety during the remote broadcast portion from the House Of Ra / CDR's from private trades> EAC> Cooledit> Flac> You / CDR's used for this mix are believed to be low generation
& cf. old Dime torrent # 97839 - 2006-05-31:
Sun Ra Arrival Day Solo Piano Mix” / 1) Sun Ra Personal Tape (believed to be cassette or reel) - Squats Theatre t01 19790814: Love in Outer Space (5:15) / 2) TV Broadcast - La Fenice Venezia, Italy t02 19771124: Unidentified Piano Solo 01 (5:46) / 3) TV Broadcast - La Fenice Venezia, Italy t03 19771124: Unidentified Piano Solo 02 (8:27) / 5) WXPN Radio Broadcast - Haverford College Haverford, Penn t05 19800125: Unidentified Electric Piano Solo 01 (3:17) / 6) WXPN Radio Broadcast - Haverford College Haverford, Penn t06 19800125: Unidentified Electric Piano Solo 02 (6:20) / 4) OMITTED FROM TORRENT (RELEASED MATERIAL) - Excerpt from "A Joyful Noise" t04 19780000: Unidentified Rochsichord Solo (3:37) / Mix created by Steve Antonelli for broadcast on May 22, 2006 “Sun Ra Arrival Day Marathon Broadcast”. Some tracks from this mix were played during the solo piano segment / Source Information: CDR's from private trades> EAC> Cooledit> Flac> You CDR's used for this mix are believed to be low generation / è incomplete version [track 6 which was inadvertently left off the original torrent] May 31, 2006.
A great many of those private recordings of Sun Ra concerts (cf. http://homepage.uab.edu/moudry/tapeintr.htm & http://homepage.uab.edu/moudry/discintr.htm)& liberated bootlegs were chiefly shared on Dime (and STG, The Trader's Den, & Lossless Legs, too) during the last years; everything based on lossless sources. Maybe you should create a separate subtopic if you wanna share the stuff on Adventure-Equation blog.
Cheers - antheraea
Thanks for the torrent info, antheraea. Currently, I don't use bittorrent so those Dime and LLegs shows that you mention aren't available to me.
ReplyDeleteBecause of that, Solar Flares is the blog's answer to sharing those shows as well as Sun Ra related music. A handful of kind readers have already offered a number of these bootlegs you mention. It's been a wonderful resource for me and I suspect for others.
I've wondered about cataloging the offerings there somehow but haven't landed on a solution - maybe a separate link to the side, kinda like a subtopic!
BTW, the 5 hour show in this post was streamed live in May of last year. It may include some of the same music from the 2006 show but is not the same broadcast. I don't have the 2006 show but would love to hear it. Maybe someone will share it with us.
sure would love to have this...someday in heaven?
ReplyDeletecan you hear the silence there? Music is is silence too
all the best,
mmk