Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
1988 live album by Sun Ra Arkestra
Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion | ||||
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Live album by Sun Ra Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1988 | |||
Recorded | August 8, 1988 | |||
Venue | Pit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Length | 58:22 | |||
Label | DIW | |||
Producer | Kohei Kawakami & Zen Matsuura | |||
Sun Ra chronology | ||||
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Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion (subtitled Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988) is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Tokyo in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Jesse Jarnow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The recording captures the band sympathetically, managing to keep the chaos under control through a crisp and deep mix... a good introduction to Sun Ra's work".[2]
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Allmusic | [2] |
Track listing
All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated
- " Introduction/Cosmo Approach Prelude" – 7:29
- "Angel Race/I Wait for You" – 7:18
- "Can You Take It?" – 3:14
- "If You Came from Nowhere Here" – 10:27
- "Astro Black" – 11:23
- "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon) – 5:11
- "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:57
- "Insterstellar Lo-Ways" – 7:23
Personnel
- Sun Ra – piano, synthesizer, vocals
- Michael Ray – trumpet, vocals on "Why Was I Born?"
- Ahmed Abdullah – trumpet
- Tyrone Hill – trombone
- Marshall Allen – alto saxophone
- John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, timbales
- Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone
- Eloe Omoe – bass clarinet, alto saxophone, contra-alto clarinet
- June Tyson – violin, vocals on "Astro Black"
- Bruce Edwards – electric guitar
- Rollo Radford – electric bass
- Eric Walker, Earl "Buster" Smith – drums
References
- ^ Sun Ra discography Archived March 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 21, 2010
- ^ a b Jarnow, J., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods