music clip of the day

What’s surprising here isn’t that there are so many wonderful moments. Given the line-up, you’d expect that. What you wouldn’t expect is for these guys to sound so cohesive, as if they’d been playing together for years.

Sun Ra All Stars (SR, keyboards; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet, vocals; Lester Bowie, trumpet; Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone, vocals; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; Marshall Allen, alto saxophone, percussion; Philly Joe Jones, drums; Clifford Jarvis, drums; Famadou Don Moye, drums, percussion), live, Germany (Berlin), 1983

More Sun Ra? Here. And here. And here.

More Don Cherry? Here. And here. And here.

More Lester Bowie? Here. And here. And here. And here.

More Archie Shepp? Here.

More Philly Joe Jones? Here. And here.

More Famadou Don Moye? Here. And here.

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