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 of the January 7, 1981 show please share?  I would love to hear the entire broadcast.  Seeing the Waldorf poster in the article reminded me that Nikos shared a recording of the October 11, 1980 Old Waldorf concert with us back in 2011.

329. [258a]  Sun Ra Omniverse Arkestra

Sun Ra (p, syn, voc); Michael Ray (tp); Craig Harris (tb); Marshall Allen (as, fl, perc); Noël Scott (as, perc); John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb); James Jacson (bsn, fl, Inf-d, voc); Amo Chip (eb); June Tyson (voc); others unidentified.

Old Waldorf, San Francisco,
October 11, 1980

radio broadcast

untitled improvisation [tb]
Tapestry from an Asteroid (Ra) [JT voc]
untitled improvisation
[Scott, as; tbs and perc; Ray, tp]
The Sun Has Something to Say (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
The Sound Mirror (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
I, Pharaoh (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
Keep Your Sunnyside Up (Ra) [ens voc]
The Space Age Is Here to Stay (Ra) [ens voc]
unidentified title (Ra) [syn only]
Big John's Special (H. Henderson)
Limehouse Blues (Braham-Furber)
unidentified Swing tune
Why Don't You Do Me Right? (McCoy) [JJ, MR voc]
'Round Midnight (Hanighen-Monk-Williams)
Lady Bird (Dameron) / Half Nelson (Davis)
We'll Be Together Again (Fischer-Laine)
The Shadow World (Ra)

According to Graham Connah, an audience tape of excerpts from this concert was subsequently broadcast by KZSC-FM in Santa Cruz.  The audience tape is 75 minutes long; the whole concert lasted two to three hours.  All information from Connah.  Amo Chip (formerly Amo Dabney) states in the April 1995 issue of Cadence that he sat in on several of Ra's 1980 Bay Area concerts.  He has confirmed that he played electric bass at this concert.

"Why Don't You Do Right?" presumably comes from the repertoire of Lil Green; Sunny was in her band in 1946 and 1947. 

from Campbell / Trent  The Earthly Recordings 2nd ed. 

Sun Ra Omniverse Arkestra

Old Waldorf, SF
1980-10-11

audience recording

(NOT complete show, but all that is in circulation. Earthly book states
this was subsequently broadcast on KZSC-FM, Santa Cruz)

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disc one:
01.  untitled improv
02.  untitled improv
03.  Tapestry From An Asteroid > improv
04.  The Sun has Something to Say
05.  The Sound Mirror
06.  I, Pharoah
07.  Keep Your Sunny Side Up
08.  The Space Age is Here To Stay
09.  untitled improv (SR syn solo)

disc two:
01.  Big John's Special
02.  Limehouse Blues
03.  Why Don't You Do Right ?
04.  'Round Midnight
05.  Lady Bird/Half Nelson
06.  We'll Be Together Again
07.  unidentified title
08.  The Shadow World


 
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