College Tour Vol. 1

Sun Ra free Jazz, recorded May 18th 1966 at St. Lawrence University in Potsdam NY.
90 minutes of unreleased material including the 70 minute first set.
1: 2:03 Burton Greene introducing the Arkestra
2: 11:59 lightening fast piano, wailing sax then low & mellow towards end.
3: 4:40 mellow noodling
4: 2:18 slow to mid piano big baritone sax
5: 1:17 male vocals with log drum?? with piano, mellow
6: 2:51 fast piano & rhythm, mellow brass then slower
7: 8:16 fast but pretty much straight ahead Jazz, at 5 min screeching sax solo
***8: 10:26 fast but pretty much straight ahead Jazz, GREAT drum solo, WOW!
***9: 9:43 bass, piano & baritone clarinet?? slow, metal percussion with lots of other percussion
10: 1:52 male vocal then sax chaos
11: 2:24 male vocal then pretty much straight ahead Jazz piano, abrupt end
***12: 9:45 mellow noodling, then mid to faster locked rhythm, nice bass, then wailing sax
13: 0:40 male spoken word then chaos
14: 1:12 fast male chant then sax chaos
15: 0:41 fast male chant, drum & applause

CD #2 partial second set & sound check
1: 9:07 male vocal then straight ahead Jazz with wailing sax
2: 7:10 straight ahead Jazz with wailing sax
3: 4:35 sax chaos from the start, mellow sax solo, more sax chaos
4: 1:30 slow & low male chorus. then mellow sax chaos
***5: 11:15 from slow straight ahead to mellow sax chaos, DRUM kit rules!
6: 1:42 nice bass riff, minimal vocals
7: 6:13 slow piano noodling, bass, percussion, sax
***8: 12:37 slow piano noodling, bass, percussion, tuba?? noodling, sax
***9: 8:21 mid to faster straight ahead Jazz, baritone sax
***10: 4:32 slow to mid, great bass riff, mellow instrument noodling, clarinet. applause & abrupt end.
D  Farrell 07/2010