Sun Ra - Uncharted Passages - 2 LPs on limited colored vinyl

     Sun Ra was a master of misdirection. Tape boxes wrongly labeled—whether by accident or design—are legendary among Ra archivists. One can speculate about the artist's intent or carelessness, but source misinformation abounds on Ra tape cases, album jackets, cassettes, ephemera—as well as in interviews. It's as if Ra, in furtherance of his own mythmaking, wanted to keep historians guessing.
     This project began as a misidentified tape discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. The 7-inch reel, which contained a live Ra solo piano performance of 11 works—some recognizable, others not—was of stellar quality, and was marked as a 1979 Carnegie Hall date. But the program on the tape did not align with known facts (e.g., titles played, concert duration) which were chronicled in a Newsday review of Ra's appearance at Carnegie in September of that year. With a prod from writer/historian Ted Gioia and further research by myself, the tape was eventually identified as a mostly unreleased July 1977 performance by Ra at a downtown NYC "jazz café" called The Axis-in-Soho.
     "These unique works comprise a precis of Sun Ra's portfolio, There are jovial romps through tradition and remarkable, thoughtful expansions of it. Small wonder his works continue to inspire today's leading pianists". -- Martin Johnson (WSJ, NPR...)  

     Includes; 
Axis Rhapsody 
St. Louis Blues 
Blue Play 
Axis Nexus 
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Childe 
Axis Extempore 
Honeysuckle Rose - Enlightenment 
Space is the Place 
Axis Impromptu 
Everything I Have is Yours 
At Sundown 
June Night 
Rumination 

NEW SEALED 2 LP set on limited YELLOW vinyl