SUN RA - PURPLE NIGHT

• sun ra: purple night
  (1990, cd, germany, a&m)

In 1989, Sun Ra and his 21-piece Arkestra (including Don Cherry on pocket trumpet) recorded a number of tracks for the A&M label. The result can be heard on "Purple Night", and also on "Somewhere Else".

Fabulous. Put this on the list of albums that you should hear before the end of this month...

SUN RA - WE ARE IN THE FUTURE

• sun ra: we are in the future
  (1990, cd, ??, vogue vg 655 650131)

20 years ago, the French Vogue label re-issued one of the early Sun Ra album and re-named it "We Are In The Furure".
The original title was "The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra", and dates from 1961 !
The very same album got re-released in 2005 (with the original title) on the Long Hill Jazz label, and this time with 7 bonustracks !

This is one of the classic Sun Ra albums, and a good place to start if you want to get acquainted with his music.

ZAPPATHON RADIO SHOW ON WUSB FM TODAY

SUN RA UPDATE

Here are the coverS of the two new Sun Ra albums on Transparency:

• sun ra: the road to destiny - the lost reel collection volume six
  (2010, cd, usa, transparency 0306)

• sun ra: live in rome 1980
  (2010, 2cd, usa, transparency 0315)

BEEFHEART'S BLUEJEANS & MOONBEAMS RE-RELEASED

The Mercury label has re-released Captain Beefheart's Bluejeans & Moonbeams on vinyl.

captain beefheart & his magic band: bluejeans & moonbeams
(2010, lp, usa, mercury srm 1018lp)

RESIDENTS TRIBUTE AT THE BERKELEY ART MUSEUM

from www.residents.com

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Museum video retrospective and performance
Apr/08/10 07:50 AM

The Berkeley Art Museum will pay tribute to The Residents at long last with a video retrospective on June 9th at the Pacific Film Archives. Also the CD-ROM of Freak Show will be demonstrated.
Associated with that will be an experimental performance on June 4th.
The Residents will present an acoustic set in one of the galleries of the art museum.
I suspect things will get very interesting when the guitars and computers are eliminated.
Note that neither Randy, Chuck, or Bob will be performing. Don’t expect to hear material from Talking Light. In fact I don’t think there will be any Residents material performed at all. It is stranger than that. More suitable for an art museum event.
The museum is not a theater or venue, so I suspect space is limited.
Also under discussion for those still wanting to see The Residents presentation of Randy, Chuck and Bob in Talking Light in the San Francisco Bay Area, watch for that later in the year.
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NEW RESIDENTS ALBUM DUE OUT

Here's a newsflash from RalphAmerica:

Howdy Residents friend,

To let you know:

Dollar General, a new Residents release, is now available for pre-sale at
http://ralphamerica.com/

This is an instrumental release, and if you attended the Talking Light shows a few months ago, you were greeted by music playing in the venue as you found your seat. Well, now is your chance to experience that feeling again. Named after a memorable (or, perhaps, extremely unmemorable) rest stop in Texas, Dollar General is a new digipak CD package, with 850 copies available, as this is the LAST RALPH AMERICA LIMITED EDITION CD. EVER!

We'll have more on that at a future date, but for now, you should be sure to procure your copy of Dollar General!

ALSO: DVD sale! All DVDs are on sale at RalphAm, so if you never picked up a copy of the SURROUND SOUND ESKIMO or original ICKY FLIX, the LIVE DEMONS DANCE ALONE or LIVE ICKY FLIX!

See ya at the Ralph corner store:

http://ralphamerica.com/

SUN RA PROJECT

EXTRA EXTRA * * READ ALL ABOUT IT

the Black Classical blog says:
"me and monhub are gonna put together a sun ra thing for the 30th may and we have asked a number of the planets cool musos to contribute a cover of any track. I am also looking for people to record snippets of what sun ra means to you and this could be reflected in say a poem, a video or whatever you feel maybe appropriate?

Wanna get involved? Would need submissions by first week in may, leave a comment and i'll get back to you in more depth…"


http://blackclassical.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/sun-ra-project/

-- info from the SATURN NEWSGROUP

ELLIOTT LEVIN QUARTET IN CONCERT IN VIENNA 2010 04 12

Monday, April 12, The ELLIOTT LEVIN QUARTET will be performing at the famous 'Porgy & Bess' club in Vienna, Austria.

2010/04/12

Elliott Levin: tenor saxophone
Simone Weißenfels: piano
Luke Kranzelbinder: bass
Peter Kronreif: drums

PORGY & BESS
RIEMERGASSE 11
A-1010 VIENNA
AUSTRIA

THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER BAND IN CONCERT 2010 04 11

SHOW no
Centro Cultural SP

domingo dia 11 de abril, às 18,00 em ponto,
na Rua Vergueiro 1.000, R$20,00.

www.scrutinizer.com.br
www.myspace.com/thecentralscrutinizerband

até lá amigos !