Sun Ra and the American Destiny Arkestra
Kilimanjaro's
Washington,DC
December 27, 1987


Source: 2nd gen AUD cassette from trade many years ago


01) Improv (9:07)
02) (15:20)
03) (8:16)
04) (8:37)
05) (4:20) (cuts abruptly)
06) (cuts abruptly in - different tune than track 05) (2:51)
07) I Dream Too Much (5:22)
08) Slumming on Park Avenue (11:12)
09) (10:32)
10) (4:37)
11) (6:39)
12) (4:29) (cuts abruptly)
Total: (91:12)


Sun Ra-p, keyb, voc; Michael Ray-tp, voc; Ahmed Abdullah-tp, voc; Tyrone Hill-tb, voc; Marshall Allen-as, cl, fl; Danny Davis-as; Pat Patrick-as;
John Gilmore-ts, cl, timbales; Eloe Omoe-as, bcl; Kenny Williams-bs; James Jacson-bsn, Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum, voc; Billy Bang-vln;
prob. Owen Brown Jr.-vln; prob. John Ore-b; Buster Smith-d; unidentified-perc; June Tyson-voc (this personnel list is based on other shows
in late 1987 and may be incomplete or slightly inaccurate)


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notes:
-another one from my cassette archives that apparently hasn't made the rounds much that's been digitalized and put on my hard drive recently.
I got this from an old cassette trading partner of many years from the DC area who passed away years ago. He was not a big jazz fan but got
this because he knew the taper, a friend from the area, and he was a musician himself (guitarist) who was into checking other types of music out.
-sound on this one is average/OK - a bit distorted on bass and vocals/flat sounding, plus it has the audience eliminated between tunes, so there's
very abrupt ends and starts to all the tracks; some taper/mic noise here & there too - otherwise, it sounds very good - I'd give it a "B+"
-this must be about the first 90 mins of the show: it runs off the end of side A of cassette and picks up in another tune on beginning of side B,
so there's at least 2 partial tunes missing there. It also runs off the end of side B in the middle of the 4th straight unidentified instrumental
tune: this would indicate they were in the middle of the set based on other mid-80's shows, which usually went 3 hours or so. None of the standard
show ending vocal tunes are there at end, so I think they still had a ways to go. The web does say they played a private gig/party in DC area in
last week of December, so this one makes sense date wise, plus my friend lived in the area - good enough for me on ID.
-the performance is OK - not absolutely smokin, but solid.
-digitalized, re-mastered and seeded by matt23.