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Curtis Ensler's Collection

Sun Ra Arkestra   09/15/1983

Larry's Hideaway, Toronto, ON
Source AUD
Media CDR   2 discs
J-Card Comment Sun Ra and his Ninth-Dimensional Arkestra

Sun Ra (syn, ep, voc); Ronnie Brown (tp); Al Evans (flg); Tyrone Hill (tb); Marshall Allen (as, ob, EVI, fl, kora, perc); Eloe Omoe (as, bcl, cacl, perc); John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc); Danny Ray Thompson (bars, fl, perc); James Jacson (bsn, ob, fl, Inf-d); James Glass (eg); Clifford Jarvis (d); unidentified (d); Atakatune (cga); unidentified Cuban (cga); unidentified (perc); June Tyson (voc); two unidentified females (dance, voc).

Larry,s Hideaway, Toronto, September 15, 1983

audience recording

early:

disc 1:

1.applause
2.untitled improvisation [kora, cgas]
3.Tapestry from an Asteroid (Ra) [JT voc]
4.Along Came Ra (Ra) [JT, ens voc]/
Mystery, Mr. Ra (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
5.Nuclear War (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
6.1984 (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
7.Big John's Special (H. Henderson)
8.Inside the Blues (Ra)
9.Yeah Man! (Sissle-Henderson)
10.Retrospect (Ra)
11.Days of Wine and Roses (Mancini)

tape flip

disc 2:

12.What's New? (Burke-Haggart) [inc]
13.Enlightenment (Ra) [JT, ens voc]
14.Strange Mathematics, Rhythmic Equations (Ra)
[SR, ens voc]
15.Watusi (Pitts-Sherrill)
16.Fate in a Pleasant Mood (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
17.Turn or Burn (Ra) [SR sermon, ens response]
18.Space Is the Place (Ra) /
We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) /
Pluto Too (Ra) /
Planet Saturn (Ra) [SR, ens voc]

encore:

19.Saturn Rings (Ra) [SR, ens voc]

late:

disc 3

1.announcement
2.untitled improvisation [EVI; perc; Allen, ob; Allen and Jacson, ob]/
Sunology/
The Lion of the Heavens (Ra) [JT voc]/
(The World Is Waiting) For the Sunrise (Ra) [JT voc]/
Bad Truth (Ra) [SR, JT, ens voc]/
The Fight of All Humanity (Ra) [SR voc]/
The Last Days (Ra) /
Crazy as a Daisy (Ra) [SR voc]
3.East of the Sun (Bowman) [JG voc]
4.Sometimes I'm Happy (Caesar-Youmans) [JT voc]
5.unidentified title (Ra) [ep only]
6.Limehouse Blues (Braham-Furber)
7.unidentified blues (Ra) [ep; Glass, eg] (inc)

missing (according to Campbell/Trent discography):

unidentified blues (Ra) [ep; Glass, eg] (rest of the track)
Big John's Special (H. Henderson)
They Plan to Leave (Ra) [JG, SR, JT voc] /
Knock on the Door of the Omniverse (Ra) [SR voc] /
Sea of Immortality (Ra) [SR voc]
Love in Outer Space (Ra)
Stardust (Carmichael-Parish)
Christopher Columbus (Razaf-Berry)
Cocktails for Two (Coslow-Johnston)
Solitude (Ellington) [inc]

who write also: "There is also a 175-minute audience tape of both sets from this concert (the first set is still incomplete)"

Well that's the point - my source (the taper) lists the sets in different order than the discography of Mr Trent and Mr Campbell.

I wouldn't ever pretend to decide what is the right order - you get it as the taper of this (and other Canadian sets) sent it to me.

There are some small hints thet could speak for the version of the taper:

1.the problems with the volume levels at the beginning of this what he calls early set (I corrected them just a little bit).

2. The fact, that he runs out of tape in the middle of what he calls late set (his early set is almost missing only the first few notes of "What's New" after the tape flip)

Well - you decide

Some minor flaws: the above mentioned problems with the volume level in the beginning of the early set. The speeding up of the tape in the last minut of the last song of the late set.
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Owned by Curtis Ensler · Last Updated May 23, 2023