Sun Ra - Aurex Jazz Festival 1988 (video)

Here is a brief 7:51 segment of the Arkestra's performance at the 1988 Aurex Jazz Festival

'Live Under The Sky' in Tokyo Japan.

Many thanks to Marc E of Philadelphia for sharing this great video clip.  If anyone would like

to share the entire video and/or the radio broadcast mentioned below, PLEASE DO!

582. [390]  Sun Ra and his Cosmo-Imagiable (?) Arkestra

Live Under the Sky (video)

Sun Ra (p, syn, voc); Michael Ray (tp, voc); Ahmed Abdullah (tp); prob. Tommy Turrentine (tp); Tyrone Hill (tb); Marshall Allen (as, perc); John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc); Danny Ray Thompson (bars, perc); Leroy Taylor [Eloe Omoe] (as, bcl, cacl, perc); June Tyson (vln, voc); Bruce Edwards (eg); Rollo Radford (eb); Samarai Celestial (d); Earl "Buster" Smith (d); unidentified female (dance).
Aurex Festival, Tokyo, July 31, 1988

According to Ahmed Abdullah, the Arkestra played opposite Miles Davis and Pat Metheny, among others.  There is a 15-minute-long Japanese TV broadcast, which includes a slightly edited version of the opening improvisation; there is also a 30-minute radio broadcast from this concert.  Correct date from Hartmut Geerken.  The name of the Arkestra defeated the best efforts of the Japanese announcer to give it in English.  The radio broadcast concludes with a snippet of "Discipline 27" under the closing credits.
from The Earthly Recordings 2nd ed.

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