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Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Band Intro/Thunder of Dreams; Tapestry From an Asteroid; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; A Pleasant Place in Space; Space Travelin' Blues; Yeah Man; Big John's Special; Lights on a Satellite; Lady Bird/Half Nelson; Cocktails for Two; Watusi; They Plan to Leave; Images in a Mirror; We Travel the Spaceways; Left Bank Blues; 'Round Midnight.

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At the Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
New Beginning; View From Another Dimension; Synthesis Approach; Ankhnaton; Rose Room; Moonship Journey; Velvet.
CD2:
Calling Planet Earth & The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Space is the Place; Ebah Speaks in Cosmic Tongue; Greetings from the 21st Century.

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: At The Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

Read "At The Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


It is an unchallenged law of nature that wherever or whoever anyone happens to be when they encounter Sun Ra, they are certain to be somewhere and someone else after the meeting. That holds especially true of Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago. Captured during two barn-burning performances at the Windy City's ...

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Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: It's After The End Of The World; Under Different Stars; Discipline 33; Watusa; Calling Planet Earth; I Am The Alter-Destiny; Satellites Are Spinning; Cosmic Forces; Outer Spaceways Incorporated; We Travel The Spaceways; The Overseer; Blackman / Love In Outer Space; Mysterious Crystal; I Am The Brother Of The Wind; We'll Wait For You; Space Is The Place; The Mathematics Of The Altered Destiny; Listen Intently To The Things I Do Not Say; Creation Is Fabrication; My World Is The Space Way; The Idea Of The Greater Age.

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Article: Live Review

Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ Center

Read "Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ Center" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Sun Ra Arkestra SFJAZZ Center Summer Season San Francisco July 18-21, 2023 Though on the surface, Dead & Company and the Sun Ra Arkestra--the first a Grateful Dead offshoot focusing on rock tunes featuring extended jams, the other an avant-garde jazz ensemble that remains ahead of its time--might seem really ...

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

Read "Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Do not expect The Criterion Collection to reissue the 1974 film Space Is The Place anytime soon. It is though, a cult classic in the truest sense of the word. Sun Ra and his Arkestra had been at the forefront of avant-garde music, developing and refining his vision since the 1950s. Today listeners are most likely ...

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen: Living Sky

Read "Living Sky" reviewed by Chris May


When Sun Ra aficionado and Omni Sound Records founder Ahmet Ulug reached out to Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen to commission a new album from the band, he gave Allen a tight brief. Ulug said that he wanted something: “Spiritual and hypnotic... down tempo, melodic and grooving... Music that is accessible and healing."

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

Read "Swirling" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Though Sun Ra departed Earth in 1993, his music has continued to thrive, first under the stewardship of John Gilmore and, since 1995, by the remarkable Marshall Allen who turned 96 in May 2020. A live Arkestra show still contains many of the elements that have been present since the 1950s and '60s--color, pageantry and music ...

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Swirling

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Satellites Are Spinning / Lights On A Satellite; Seductive Fantasy; Swirling; Angels And Demons At Play; Sea Of Darkness / Darkness; Rocket No. 9; Astro Black; Infinity / I’ll Wait For You; Sunology; Door Of The Cosmos / Say; Queer Notions (2xLP bonus track).


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