Sun Ra Orchestra - 1987-12-06 - Binghamton, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(soundboard FLAC)

His Cosmo Love Dance
Orchestra
Mandela Room, SUNY-Binghamton

Lineage:
SBD Tape > Nakamichi CR-1A > Adobe Audition (hard drive transfer, level adjustments and tracking) > FLAC, level 8 > You, the listener!

1st set:
1. unidentified fanfare
2. The Sun Is In the Heavens (Ra) (Tyson, voc)
3. Discipline 27-II (Ra)
4. This World Is Not My Home / Angel Race / I'll Wait For You) (Ra & ens voc; prob. Davis, as)
5. I Dream Too Much (Kern) (Ra - voc)
6. untitled improvisation (Ra "conducting"; Allen, as ; Omoe, bcl, Abdullah, tp; prob. Smith, d ; Gilmore, ts ; Billy Bang, vln)
7. Back Alley Blues (Ra) (good solo by Gilmore, ts; also Williams, bs; Bang, van)
8. Slumming on Park Avenue (Berlin) (Tyson, Jacson, Ra, prob. Ray and ens voc)
9. Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington) (Allen, as/)
10.'S Wonderful (Gershwin) (Ray, voc; Ra, p; Hill, tb; Gilmore, good ts solo)
11. Love in Outer Space (Ra) (prob. Abdullah, voc; Abdullah says the male vocalists were himself, Ray, and Gilmore)
12. Space Is the Place (Ra) (Tyson, voc; Williams, b; ens. voc.; Ra, syn; Ra, p; Ra and ens. voc.) We Travel The Spaceways / Outer Spaceways, Inc. / Journey to Saturn / Saturn Rings / Rocket #9 / Second Stop Is Jupiter / We Travel the Spaceways (Ra) (Ra and ensemble voc.; not the original tunes)

2nd set:
13. untitled improvisation (Jacson, Infinity Drum; Abdullah, tp (spectacular!); Ore, b; Gilmore, c)
14. Yeah, Man! (Sissle-Henderson) (Ra, p; Gilmore, cl; Ray, tp; Gilmore, ts)
15. Mood Indigo (Tio-Bigard-Ellington-Mills) (Ra, p (Garnerish); Patrick, as; Ra, p and keyb)
16. Over the Rainbow (Duke-Harburg) (short version, piano solo)
17. I Want to Be Happy (cuts off) (Ra, Jacson, Tyson, Ray, voc; Ra, p; Bang, vln; Patrick, as; Ra, p; ensemble voc. with Tyson; Ra, voc)

2nd set encore:
18. Mack the Knife (Brecht-Weill-Blitzstein) (Ra, p; Jacson, voc; Allen, as; Patrick, as; Gilmore, cl (great solo); Ra, p; Ra, voc; band marches through audience)