Live from Soundscape (Sun Ra album) explained

Live from Soundscape
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Sun Ra Arkestra
Cover:	Live from Soundscape (Sun Ra album).jpg
Released:	July 21, 1994
Recorded:	November 10 & 11, 1979
Venue:	Soundscape, NYC
Genre:	Free jazz
Length:	140:36
Label:	DIW DIW 388
Producer:	Verna Gillis
Chronology:	Sun Ra
Prev Title:	Sleeping Beauty
Prev Year:	1979
Next Title:	Of Mythic Worlds
Next Year:	1979

Live from Soundscape is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in New York City in 1979 and released on the Japanese DIW label in 1994.^[1] Initial pressings of the album contained a bonus CD featuring a lecture by Sun Ra.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 3 stars stating "Sound quality, while good, is not perfect, gearing the release more towards the serious fan".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except where noted

Disc One:

1. " Astro Black" – 11:52
2. "Where There Is No Sun" – 4:05
3. "Living in the Space Age" – 2:03
4. "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 2:52
5. "D.27" – 12:36
6. "Watusi" – 12:23
7. "Space Is the Place" – 7:56
8. "We Travel the Space Ways " – 7:33
9. "On Jupiter, the Skies are Always Blue" – 6:40

Disc Two:

1. The Possibility of Altered Destiny – 72:40

Personnel

• Sun Ra – piano, keyboards
• Michael Ray – trumpet, vocals
• Walter Miller – trumpet
• Vincent Chancey – French horn
• Charles Stephens – trombone
• Marshall Allen – alto saxophone
• Skeeter McFarland – electric guitar
• Damon Choice – vibraphone
• Richard Williams – bass
• Luqman Ali – drums
• Atakatune – percussion
• June Tyson – vocals, dance

Notes and References

1. http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=105 Sun Ra discography
2. Westergaard, S., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014