How lucky to be able to attend an outdoor tribute to jazz pianist and legendary intergalactic traveler Herman Sonny Blount aka Sun Ra. Ra famously claimed to be from Saturn piloting his Arkestra through jazz, R and B, spoken word, and any other medium he could lay his hands on. He is too multidimensional to describe here, but for the uninitiated, please Google and YouTube this master bandleader. The tribute concert was helmed by local guitarist Mykael Ross, joined by sax, trumpet, drums, congas, bass, and ofcourse keyboards (both Prophet and Korg).The band was proficient in paying homage, with guitar and bass holding down the affair. The breadth of material is vast as Ra released hundreds of recordings, with posthumous recordings coming fast and furious. On this evening, the set list included: I’ll Wait for You, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Sunology, Sunrise. Show highlight was an excellent rendering of Space is The Place. The crowd was safely returned to earth after a brief and welcome tour of the galaxy.
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