Professor Sun Ra

Tue Sep 8 06:43:08 CDT 2015

Allan,

I haven't checked this out at all, and didn't know about them. I'll have to look them up. Thanks for letting me know!

Kd 

Www.innergroovemusic.com

> On Sep 8, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey, Keith - 
> 
> Sorry to go tangential on you, but what do you think of the Sun Ra recordings that have been re-mastered for iTunes? 
> 
> I didn't look deep but I didn't readily find out who was doing the re-mastering.
> 
> Thanks for the info on his drummer.
> 
> -Allaln in WV
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> >
>>>> > 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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