Jeff Waye asked:
<Also, I'm just reading the biography of Sun Ra. At one point it mentions
that he appeared on Saturday Night Live?! Does anyone remember this? More
importantly does anyone have a video tape of this.>
Here's the info:
<V78.5.21. Saturday Night Live
NBC TV show, live from New York City. 5/21/78. 5 min. TV Broadcast, tinny
sound. [Iannapollo]
Described by Sun Ra as 6 pieces in 6 minutes, but what is preserved is:
Space is the Place (Ra)
The Sound Mirror (Ra)
Watusa (Ra)
Sun Ra and his Jazz from Another Planet Arkestra: unidentified-tp, flg;
Tony Bethel-tb; poss. Craig Harris-tb; Vincent Chancey-Frh; Marshall
Allen-as, fl; Danny Davis-as, fl; John Gilmore-ts, cga; Eloe Omoe-bcl;
James Jacson-bsn, perc; Danny Ray Thompson-bs; Ra-syn, org, voc; Luqman
Ali-d; unidentified-cga; prob. Cheryl Banks-dance; prob. Judith Holton
(Wisteria el Moondew)-dance; prob. Mickey Davidson-dance. [Tunes Trent;
personnel rlc from still photo in Down Beat, 9/93, p. 27; I thought the
trumpeter was Eddie Gale, but he says he wasn't there.] >
Here's the URL:
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/tape_f.htm
Bob