A welcome but anonymous visitor reminded us yesterday that the broadcast of the Arkestra's 1986 performance in East Berlin is/was available on dime. I don't use bit-torrent but I do have the broadcasts sourced from the Transparency DVD 0171, "Sun Ra volume 2". Here is the first of the two.
The opening 45 minutes from this concert were broadcast (in black and white) on the East German TV network DDR1 as Jazz Buhne Berlin in 1988; the rest was broadcast later that year on the same newtwork as Jazz Buhne Berlin: the second part of the concert. According to Armin Büttner, the concert was actually shot in color, and color videotapes probably still exist. There is also a 60-minute radio broadcast that ran from the opening to "Space is the Place".
503. [348] Le Sun Ra and his Cosmo Discipline Arkestra
Sun Ra (p, org, syn, voc); Tyrone Hill (tb); Laurdine "Pat" Patrick (as, cl, fl); Marshall Allen (as, fl, ob, perc); John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc); Danny Ray Thompson (bars, fl, bgo); Eloe Omoe (as, bcl, cacl, perc); James Jacson (bsn, fl, Inf-d, voc); Bruce Edwards (eg); Rollo Radford (eb); Marvin "Boogaloo" Smith (d).
Friedrichstadtpalast, East Berlin,
June 28, 1986
untitled improvisation [Inf-d; eb; ob; bcl; tb]
Mystic Prophesy (Ra) [cond ens; bcl; Allen, as; ts; syn]
untitled improvisation [d; cond ens; Inf-d; ob and Patrick, fl; ob, Patrick, cl, joined by bcl and Thompson, fl; syn]
Beyond the Wilderness of Shadows (Ra) [p and Patrick, as, only]
unidentified Blues (Ra) [p; eb; eg; p]
From The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra 2nd ed.
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thank you, yotte!
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it's been a long since i've been here and i'm finding a lot of great sutff as expected, may thanks
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ReplyDeleteFusionero, welcome back! Please, come back anytime. I'll leave the key under the mat.
based on the notes above, i come up with the following time events:
ReplyDelete00:00 - 04:25 untitled improvisation
04:26 - 14:47 Mystic Prophesy
14:48 - 24:24 untitled improvisation
24:25 - 31:40 Beyond the Wilderness of Shadows with hints of "we travels the spaceways" at the end
31:41 - 42:10 unidentified blues (this sounds
a lot like 'this train' or willie dixon's 'my
babe', with sun ra doing his best jerry lee
lewis near the end)
42:10 - 42:55 applause (to 42:46) and credits
Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) - although listed above, that does not seem to be in this part? did i miss it?
I-)
Hi I-)
ReplyDeleteI watched both broadcasts back to back a few days ago; I remember Prelude to a kiss being played but perhaps it was during the 2nd show. I took the set list from 'The Earthly Recordings' and didn't really 2nd guess the accuracy. Good catch!
Sublime! This made my day. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
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