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Also: I am so jealous that you saw him in '75. That must have been amazing.
Also: I am so jealous that you saw him in '75. That must have been amazing.
+1. I am too young for Sun Ra, but as a 15 year old kid I saw Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe in 1995 at the Knitting Factory. I put my jacket under the piano stool at about 10PM and stayed until they finished around 3AM. That show pretty much changed my life.
It was incredible. A friend at college turned me on to jazz I wasn't familiar with. Sun Ra being one. One Sat night, he, my girlfriend(wife) and I decided to go into the city to see him. I didn't know what to expect. Even his albums didn't prepare me for what was to come. Singers, dancers, John Gilmore, an incredible saxophonist. He even engaged the audience to participate when the entire Arkestra started dancing in a line around all the tables. He went from Fletcher Henderson to his futuristic avant garde, quoting Ellington, Coltrane, Miles. Gillespie in between.keefdotorg wrote:Up!
Also: I am so jealous that you saw him in '75. That must have been amazing.
Oh yeah +1.
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I didn't think I could get more jealous, but there it is.jamel-d wrote: It was incredible. A friend at college turned me on to jazz I wasn't familiar with. Sun Ra being one. One Sat night, he, my girlfriend(wife) and I decided to go into the city to see him. I didn't know what to expect. Even his albums didn't prepare me for what was to come. Singers, dancers, John Gilmore, an incredible saxophonist. He even engaged the audience to participate when the entire Arkestra started dancing in a line around all the tables. He went from Fletcher Henderson to his futuristic avant garde, quoting Ellington, Coltrane, Miles. Gillespie in between.
Oh yeah +1.
I didn't discover him until after he'd passed. I was a radio DJ, doing a pretty weird show on college radio. Discovered Archie Shepp, then Sun Ra... and it was down the rabbit hole I went.