Professor Sun Ra

[Keith Davis]

Samarai produced this shortly before he died. He played cuts from it for me
as he was working on it. We were in Savannah, playing in a band together.
His hometown and my birthplace. Well worth checking out...

Samarai...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001WXK/sr=8-1/qid=1441680507/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1441680507&sr=8-1

Here's a CD we're on together, recorded in Savannah...I was young...

http://www.amazon.com/Its-About-Time-Teddy-Adams/dp/B0014KWVNY/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1441680763&sr=1-3&keywords=Teddy+Adams

My younger son is indirectly named after him, Samuel. My ex wouldn't go for
Samarai. Funny, now that's his nickname with his friends.

Here's a clip of Sun Ra with Samarai on drums. He's the one with the drum
solo at about 6:00. He's listed on some of Sunny's records as Eric Walker,
his birth name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_JUShK4n8

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:11 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow! Wow! What else to say?
>
> On Monday, September 7, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I played with one of Sunny's drummers, Samarai Celestial, for several
>> years. We even recorded together. From his stories, it was quite an
>> experience living in that milieu for 14 years!
>> Samarai was a killer drummer...
>>
>>
>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>
>> > On Sep 7, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > My one Sun Ra record (though my youngest [schizophrenic (my mom's
>> > sister blames Schoenberg)] brother is a big fan, bought him the
>> > biography in grade school [?!], even):
>> >
>> > The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale - Robin's Theme
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XQgpj7Qnw>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.discogs.com/Sensational-Guitars-Of-Dan-Dale-Batman-Theme-Robins-Theme/release/2370799
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-sensational-guitars-of-dan-and-dale-batman-and-robin-mw0000006532
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:10 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Thanks, man. A big Kirk and Sun Ra Fan, and was thrilled to discover
>> that
>> >> Kirk was the major influence of Ian Anderson.  was at the music
>> festival
>> >> outside reo, in niteroi, and so many were playing....who would have
>> thought
>> >> so many would be playing....and then, after a little seu jorge, came
>> this
>> >> sun ra...well, i was impressed...and then ....a church type band....it
>> was
>> >> too much memory flooding, like the finger of god from the clouds
>> ....not
>> >> Calvinist but graceful god of spiritual catholic,liberation, yeah...
>> >>
>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_dos_%C3%93rg%C3%A3os
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Dave Monroe <
>> against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> "In the Spring of 1971 Herman 'Sonny' Blount, aka Sun Ra, was
>> >>> artist-in-residence at the University of Califonia at Berkeley, where
>> >>> he offered a lecture course, variably described as African-American
>> >>> Studies 198, 'The Black Man in the Universe,' or 'The Black Man In the
>> >>> Cosmos,' or perhaps it was AAS 171. Apparently there was always some
>> >>> confusion regarding the course, and students had difficulty in picking
>> >>> up books from the required reading list, although one listing, The
>> >>> Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (i.e, The Bible, 'King James'),
>> >>> whose author was listed as 'God,' was available from 'numerous'
>> >>> publishers."
>> >>>
>> >>> http://sensitiveskinmagazine.com/professor-sun-ra/
>> >>>
>> >>> ‘THE BLACK MAN IN THE COSMOS’: SUN RA TEACHES AT UC BERKELEY, 1971
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_black_man_in_the_cosmos_sun_ra_teaches_at_uc_berkeley_1971
>> >>>
>> >>> Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course,
>> >>> “The Black Man in the Cosmos”
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html
>> >>> -
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