I had the good fortune of seeing Sun Ra perform at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the mid 80's. Definitely one of the best shows I have had the pleasure of seeing.

this audacious insanity is wonderfully refreshing 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Being a Philly Boy, Arkestra shows were a home game. Awesome, and I'm 2 minutes in.

I remember Sun Ra's Arkestra being in residence in Detroit for an extended period (around 1980-81), We would go to downtown to their hotel during the day where the members were hanging and had interesting conversations with several of them about music and everything else. They also gave impromptu music lessons on their respective instruments. (We didnt see the very reclusive Sun Ra. You didnt talk to Sun Ra and he was basically unapproachable.). They were a tight group and all them revered Sun Ra.). Seeing them perform front row was an eye opening experience. The Arkestra would play out then play a barrage of Ellington charts-straight then in their "unique" way).

Way ahead of his time, a musical genius. He was before Ornette. Music with his personal philosophy. What a visionary!

SunRa'& Arkestra soaking up all the love!

I'm the drummer on it Iwas there Grandmasters Marvin bugalu Smith and that wall came tumbling down because it injustice,,

What a masterclass in jazz! From classic to free... awesome musicianship... skill, creativity, stage fun... what don't they have?

interstellar low ways starts around 24:00 for me one of the most beautiful pieces of music performed by the best of the best when pat patrick soloing and sun ra is walking with his bells 🔔 ..... maybe the best thing here on earth 🌏 because it‘s from🪐

Who here 2024 ❓😎👍🏽

Truly Amazing.. Live magic at hand. Sun ra da boss. U can listen to jazz or u can ride the rings of Saturn.. Your choice!

4:07 never ceases to impress me.

East Berlin at that time. Great to finally see it in color

Awesome! Intersting to see James Jacson using a single reed mouthpiece on his bassoon.

Sun Ra- piano; Marshall Allen- alto sax; John Gilmore- tenor sax, clarinet. Danny Ray Thompson- baritone sax.Rollo Radford- bass.My good friend Bruce Edwards- guitar.. James Jacson- bassoon.Tyrone Hill- trombone. The great Marvin Bugalu Smith- drums.Elo Omoe - 2nd alto sax.

Friedrichstadt-Palast, East Berlin June 28, 1986

Now the thing about this concert in East Berlin is that after this concert 2 weeks after being home,, back in the states,, the Berlin Wall came down after many years of oppressio,, did you read it was on TV I say it was SunRa's music and that band and his convictions and his aditude toward the music and the people, I learned a lot of my spiritual practice, that I still use today with great success being and learning from SunRa Really sharpen my intuition intuition as the underlining cause of everything

What an awesome show. The ending was great. All smiles.

BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE PRESENTED AND FILMED WELL. SALUTE!!! SUNNY!!!

Great!

Eu vi e ouvi SUN RA no primeiro festival de Vilar de Mouros em1982 ADOREI É um Músico incrível.

best sound ive heard since count basie and duke ellington, and im going on my ninth decade.

who here in 2023!!

listening to this now June 11/19 on youtube and think maaaan push it !!!!! its dragging on the ear phones and i wanna it to be live here and now and jus PUSH!!!!! I love these guys and wish to hell theyd let me out of this god damn psyche ward

Thanx, footage is rare of this legendary man and his band.

What is this. Incredible. MORE than just free jazz.

and absolutley brilliant filming these guys knew

i knew people on the other side of the wall didn‘t live in paradise but they never held back when something extraordinaire like this took place

Live & direct. From another space of time...

Lovely and at it's Best. The Wall came tumblin' down.

Marvin "Bugalu" Smith astounding drummer, plays as one from the cosmos. Thank you all.

I reckon the 4 dislikers all live together and enjoy kenny g and rod stewart!

From what I'm seeing, this is tame and more a classic set than what I saw in concern. For instance, the baritone sax player was in front me on the floor laying on his back overblowing it and sounding like a wounded bison knowing its about to be slaughtered!

Absolutely marvelous!!

Always great hats

Son unos genios, Me recuerdan un poco a Telonious Monk. Es increible la belleza y la armonía de esta big band. El piano es espectacular.

for those who have ears to hear for those who have eyes to see it‘s all here

Happy Birthday Sun El Ra sun 🌞

great audience is worth 50%

like a perfectly well oiled machine and the chief machinists is pleased & proud

Finally, some footage of sun ra using his dx7. I’d love to find his patches or info about them.

Thanks so much for sharing!

Starting around 51:30 sounds like a combination of a dog that just got injured and a tea kettle going off in my kitchen. .. now that's art!

The headgear is very important in all this.

He showed us how much we really don’t know…

John Gilmore!

Rollo Radford is great on this. Thanks so much for this video!

Ellington approved.

Never has Ellington been so streched out.

Fretted and no-fret. cool.

this was the main event that made it possible that the berlin wall disappeared ☝️

How it started: 0:16 How it's going: 41:42

El ellington que vino del sol

"The Shadow World" as the encore...

What's the keyboard model that's on top of the piano? Looks cool and has some very interesting sounds!

They must have left the rest of the brass section home.

What's the name of this song?

48:24 Cosmic OG

What's the title of the tune starting at about 21:00? It's so super-cool.

The whole band are virtueoso.

I Need those shades he got at 0:30

you got love this shit

8:51 ra got the ps4 plugged in

Is the guitarist Bruce Edwards from NYC ?

Great Concert! Somebody knows the song at around 30 minutes?

Double neck bass?

And who is the alto player at 24:20?

Like the P-Funk of Jazz- he and George Clinton have a lot in common

with all due respect..they are ok..

Nice video but I wasn't excited.

Wtf personnel? : )

Clown show