Bootleg Feature Source Information

SUN RA ARKESTRA 

Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia 

1978-10-31 

ESP Radio 

from the 'Good Doctor' Archives (Michael Anderson) 

from Good Doctor personal cassette [not in RLC book] 

lineage: ESP Radio > ? > wav files in trade > CD wave > FLAC 

01 The Sound Mirror/Mayan temples 13.50 

02 Halloween in Harlem - personnel includes: Craig Harris,

Vincent Chancey, Oscar “Bobo” Brown, b. 05.29 

03 The Shadow World > 08.14 

applause, announcement by Dave Gold 

04 Strange World / Black Myth 01.34 

05 UFO 05.56 

06 Door of the Cosmos 03.33 

07 We Travel the Spaceways 03.04 

note: 

these tracks all from Halloween show and appeared at various

points during the ESP Sun Ra Tribute 

...this is just the order they appeared in the show and may not relate

to the original performance 

running order. 

Sun Ra and the Omniverse Arkestra 

Hart Plaza, Detroit 

1 sept 88 

FM - Cass. master - cass. 1 - DAT(this) - CDR - Flac – world

Sun Ra Arkestra 

October 11, 1986 (three sets) 

dc space 

Washington, DC 

Made from the master cassettes 

flac 

total time 234:28 

1st set 69:28 

1 untitled improvisation 

2 Along Came Ra 

3 History-Mystery/To Be Or Not To Be 

4 Discipline 27-II/If People of Earth Don't Learn How to Care 

5 Back Alley Blues 

6 Blue Lou 

7 Day Dream 

8 Watusi 

9 We Travel the Spaceways  

Sun Ra Arkestra 

Parody Hall 

Kansas City, MO 

May 11 1985 

soundboard>?>cdr>eac(secure mode)>flac(level 6) 

total time 135:07 

set 1 

1 unidentified improvisation 

2 Astro Black/A Lost Horizon/(The World Is Waiting) For the

Sunrise 

3 unidentified Swing piece 

4 unidentified blues (tape flip) 

5 Queer Notions 

6 Days of Wine and Roses 

7 Happy As the Day Is Long 

8 Day Dream 

9 Mack the Knife 

set 2 

1 untitled improvisation (cuts, tape flip) 

2 untitled improvisation/blues 

3 unidentified blues 

4 

5 piano intro to > 

6 Space Is the Place/We Travel the Spaceways (cuts) 

personnel (thanks to RL Campbell) 

Sun Ra - piano, synthesizer, organ, vocals 

Walter Miller - trumpet 

Ronnie Brown - trumpet 

possibly Fred Adams - trumpet 

probably Dick Griffin - trombone 

unidentified - trombone 

Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, EVI, percussion 

John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, clarinet, timbales 

Ronald Wilson - tenor saxophone 

Eloe Omoe - alto saxophone, bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet,

percussion 

Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute, percussion 

James Jacson - bassoon, Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum, vocals 

Rollo Radford - electric standup bass 

Avreeayl Amen Ra - drums 

unidentified - conga, percussion 

June Tyson - vocals 

Sun Ra Arkestra 

Horseshoe Tavern 

Toronto, ON 

4 November 1978 

audience recording>?>cdr (Transparency 10 cd set "Sun Ra Live at

the Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto 1978") 

eac(secure mode)>cdwave (tracking)>flac(level 6) 

cd1 44:51 

1 Untitled improvisation 

2 Strange Worlds/Black Myth > Astro Black > (The World Is

Waiting) For the Sunrise 

3 Discipline 27 > Untitled improvisation 

4 keyboard intro to Take the "A" Train//cut  

cd2 47:21 

1 Limehouse Blues 

2 On the Sunny Side of the Street 

3 Why Don't You Do Right 

4 Enlightenment > Space is the Place 

5 Over the Rainbow 

cd3 41:18 

1 Watusi 

2 We Travel the Spaceways 

Sun Ra - organ, synth, piano, percussion, vocals 

John Gilmore - tenor,clairnet, timbales, vocals 

Marshall Allen - alto sax, piccolo 

Danny Davis - alto sax, flute 

Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, flute 

Danny Ray Thompson - baritone sax, flute 

James Jacson - basson, flute, lightning drum 

Michael Ray - trumpet 

Eddie Gale (and/or) Walter Miller - trumpet 

Damon Choice - vibraphone 

Stanley Morgan - conga 

Luqman Ali - drums 

June Tyson - vocals 

Dale Williams - electric guitar