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10/03/1981
Don Cherry
Set 1Inspiration from Home
Bamako Love
Set 2improvisation
Reggae to the High Tower > Roland Alphonso > Mopti > Air Mail > Mopti
CommentBand consisted of about 20 locals who had volunteered to be part of a workshop with Cherry. They apparently rehearsed with him that afternoon before performing two sets beginning at 9 that evening. Lots of long vamps over which Cherry and a few brave souls solo.
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01/23/1982
Sun Ra
Set 1untitled improvisation/Pleiades/untitled improvisation
The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise/Along Came Ra/Mystery, Mr. Ra/Discipline 27/untitled improvisation
Big John’s Special/Deep Purple
Fate In a Pleasant Mood
Yeah Man!
Stardust
Happy As the Day is Long
Daydream
Watusi
‘Round Midnight
Space Is the Place/We Travel the Spaceways/I’ll Wait For You/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child/Swing Low Sweet Chariot/Celestial Road/Hit That Jive, Jack/Gone With the Wind
Set 2untitled improvisation/Hymn To the Sun
The Sun Is on His Way/Discipline 27-II/You’ve Lost Your Way/Sea of Immortality/I have Many Names/I Am Sin/Bad Truth
My Funny Valentine
Blue Lou
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
Theme of the Stargazers
Set 3
CommentSun Ra - keyboards, vocals
prob. Ronnie Brown - trumpet
Tyrone Hill - trombone
Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, EVI, percussion
John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, EVI, percussion
Eloe Omoe - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion
Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute, EVI, percussion
James Jacson - bass clarinet, Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum
Carl LeBlanc - guitar
Skeeter Mcfarland - guitar
unidentified - drums
unidentified - conga
unidentified - percussion
dancer(s) also present
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11/27/1982
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Set 1?
We Bop
Dreaming of the Master--New York is Full of Lonely People
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10/15/1983
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
CommentJamaaladeen Tacuma - bass
unknown personnel

Broadcast live via WAMU-FM as part of the "New Music America" festival. The members of his group were not identified.
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11/05/1983
Oregon
Set 1Blue Sun
The Juggler's Etude
Half Past > Improvisation
The Queen of Sidney
Fall 77
Beneath a Ruby Sky
Raven's Wood
The Glide > Improvisation > The Rapids
announcement
Icarus
CommentRalph Towner - guitar, piano, synthesizer
Paul McCandless - saxophones, oboe, flute, bass clarinet, English horn
Colin Walcott - drums, percussion
Glen Moore - bass
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