Sun Ra and his Arkestra
Museum of Modern Art
Stockholm, Sweden
9 July 1985
onstage recording>?>cassette>Tascam 202 MKVII>Sony PCM-D50(16 bit/44.1 kHz SBM on)>audacity>flac

total time 189:30

Sun Ra (p, syn, voc)
prob. Ronnie Brown (tp)
Tyrone Hill (tb, voc)
Marshall Allen (as, ob, perc)
Eloe Omoe (as, bcl, cacl, perc)
John Gilmore (ts, cl, timb, voc)
Ronald Wilson (ts, picc)
Danny Ray Thompson (bars, EVI, perc)
Charles Tyler (as, bars)
James Jacson (bsn, fl, Inf-d, voc)
Bruce Edwards (eg)
Rollo Radford (eb)
prob. John Ore (b)
Avreeayl Amen Ra (d)
June Tyson (voc, dance).

sound check:
1 Yesterdays (Kern-Harbach) [inc] / Big John’s Special (H. Henderson)

1st set:
2 untitled improvisation [d and Inf-d; EVI and ob; tb and tp; eg]
3 Outer Space (Is a Pleasant Place) (Ra) [JT voc]
4 untitled improvisation
5 A Different Horizon (Ra) [JT voc]
6 Discipline 27-11 (Ra) / I’ll Wait for You (Ra) [SR voc]
7 untitled improvisation [cond ens]
8 unidentified blues (Ra) [p; eb; Wilson, ts; p]
9 Yeah Man! (Sissle-Henderson)
10 Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington)
11 Mack the Knife (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) [JJ voc; JJ, SR voc]
12 untitled improvisation [d solo; Inf-d solo]
13 East of the Sun (Bowman) [JG voc]
14 The Shadow World (Ra)
15 Over the Rainbow (Arlen-Harburg) [p only]
16 Fate in a Pleasant Mood (Ra) / Christopher Columbus (Razaf-Berry) / See You Later, Alligator (trad.) [SR, ens voc]

2nd set:
17 untitled improvisation [Hill, tb]
18 untitled improvisation [prob. Tyler, bars; eg; ens]
19 Never Never Land (Ra) [JT voc]
20 (The World Is Waiting) For the Sunrise (Ra) [JT voc; Ra’s entrance]
21 untitled improvisation [Avreeayl, d solo; cond ens]
22 I’ll Never Be the Same (Kahn-Malneck-Signorelli) [inc]
23 unidentified blues (Ra) [p; eg; eb; Wilson, ts; p]
24 Day Dream (Strayhorn)
25 Happy as the Day Is Long (Arlen-Koehler)
26 Carefree (Ra)
27 Fate in a Pleasant Mood (Ra) [SR, ens voc]
28 Space Is the Place (Ra) [JT, SR voc] / We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) / Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Ra) [SR, ens voc]

notes from Earthly:
There are 190 minutes of bandstand tapes made by Avreeayl Amen Ra; they are virtually complete. The date on the tapes is January 9, and the location is merely “Sweden.” The Arkestra was not in Europe in January 1985. July 9 would place this concert during a known European tour; besides, the second tape continues with material from July 12. And a photo taken by Mike Johnston shows the Arkestra at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm — on July 9, 1985. (Probably Charles Tyler, along with Allen, Wilson, Gilmore, and Omoe, can be seen in the reed section.)

Tunes and personnel ct. “Fate in a Pleasant Mood” is cut off after 30 seconds, when Sunny changes his mind and shifts gears into “Christopher Columbus."