Sun Ra Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank Vinyl LP Black Friday 2024

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release online 30th November 2024

In-store from 29th November

This is a Black Friday 2024 release. Strictly one per customer.

Tracklist:

1. Band Intro - Thunder Of Drums
2. Tapestry From An Asteroid
3. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
4. A Pleasant Place In Space
5. Space Travelin' Blues
6. Yeah Man (Fletcher Henderson)
7. Big John Special (Horace Henderson)
8. Lights On A Satellite
9. Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron)
10. Cocktails For Two (Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow)
11. Watusi
12. They Plan To Leave
13. Images In A Mirror
14. We Travel The Spaceways
15. Blues Piano Joint
16.'Round Midnight'* (Thelonious Monk)

*Bonus tracks from Robert Mugge’s film, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

Available for the very first time, the intergalactic icon Sun Ra and his Arkestra's Lights On A Satellite: Live at the Left Bank was recorded on July 23, 1978 at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, Maryland by the Left Bank Jazz Society. The limited-edition 180-gram 2-LP set contains audio from the Sun Ra Archives, and was researched and compiled by Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson. Mastering by engineer Joe Lizzi and lacquers cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. The critically acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Mugge has also provided audio from the recordings he made at the Left Bank which was featured in his 1980 film Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise. The deluxe package includes liners notes by veteran music critic J.D. Considine, plus interviews with the centenarian Arkestra saxophonist Marshall Allen, NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Gary Bartz and pianist Craig Taborn.