Sun Ra - Uncharted Passages (2025) [Official Digital Download]

“These unique works comprise a precis of Ra's portfolio. There are jovial romps through tradition and remarkable, thoughtful expansions of it. Small wonder his work continues to inspire today's leading pianists.” - Martin Johnson (WSJ, NPR, and beyond)

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.

TRACKLIST

1. Sun Ra - June Night (Live)
2. Sun Ra - St. Louis Blues (Live)
3. Sun Ra - Blue Play (Live)
4. Sun Ra - Axis Nexus (Live)
5. Sun Ra - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Live)
6. Sun Ra - Axis Extempore (Live)
7. Sun Ra - Honeysuckle Rose - Enlightment (Live)
8. Sun Ra - Space is the Place (Live)
9. Sun Ra - Axis Impromptu (Live)
10. Sun Ra - Everything I Have is Yours
11. Sun Ra - At Sundown
12. Sun Ra - Contemplation
13. Sun Ra - Rumination



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