150 CONCERT FOR THE COMET KOHOUTEK CD 61
150.CONCERT FOR THE COMET KOHOUTEK
SunRa
ESP Disk 3033-2 (ZYX-Music) CD
Personel:
Sun Ra (synth,org,voc); Kwame Hadi (tp,perc); Akh Tal Ebah (tp,perc,mellophone,voc [on "Space Is The Place"]); Charles Stevens (tb); Marshall Allen (as,fl, voc,perc); Danny Davis (as,fl,voc,perc); John Gilmore (ts,voc,perc); Danny Ray Thompson (bs,fl,perc); James Jacson (bsn,fl,perc,lightning dr); Eloe Omoe (bcl.perc); prob. Lex Humphries (dr); Ronnie Boykins (b); Thomas Hunter (dr); Alzo Wright (cello,perc); Judith Holton (voc,dance); Ruth Wright (voc,dance); Cheryl Banks (voc,dance); June Tyson (voc,dance);
Live at Town Hall, New York City, 22 December 1973
Tracks:
Kohoutek Intro / Astro Black / Variations Of Kohoutek Themes / Journey Through The Outer Darkness / Enlighte[n]ment / Unknown Kohoutek / Discipline / Outer Space E.M. (Emergency) / Space Is The Place
- 1.A CD released in October 1993. Liner Notes by Urban Gwerder & Tom "Tornado" Klatt.
- 2.The 'Celebration For The Comet Kohoutek' at Town Hall involved other ESP-Disk muicians too, including Randy Burns, Amanda, Buddy Hughes, Don Garrett
- 3.The 10 photographs of the flyer were taken during Sun Ra's concert in Heliopolis/Egypt, Dec. 12,1971 (see DARK MYTH EQUATION VISITATION and NIDHAMU, listings 123,124).
- 4.The track titling is a little wayward. Some corrections:
-Variations Of Kohoutek Themes different versions of the Discipline 27-complex
-Unknown Kohoutek Love In Outer Space
-Discipline different versions of the Discipline 27-complex, plus Life Is Splendid
-Outer Space E.M. (Emergency) Outer Space Employment Agency and is really just the concluding section of Discipline (total time 19:42).
- 5.On the CD label: Kohoutek is misspelt 'Kahoutek', on at least some issues.
REISSUES
1.This album was released on various incarnations of ESP-Disk and other operations: Get Back, ZYX, Abraxus. All the reissue seem to have used the same serial number as the original.