Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise (DVD) 1

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Description

Robert Mugge's definitive documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres (jazz, soul, gospel, blues, swing) with the sounds of Africa and the Caribbean. He also combined his music with dance, poetry, colorful costumes and backdrops, and pure theatricality, influencing other innovative musical ensembles as diverse as the Art Ensemble of Chicago, George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, and he was among the first musicians to use electronic keyboards and portable synthesizers in public performance. For his one-hour documentary, SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE, Robert Mugge spent two years shooting Sun Ra and members of his so-called jazz Arkestra in a wide variety of situations. Ensemble performances were filmed at Baltimore's Famous Ballroom, at Danny's Hollywood Palace in Philadelphia, and on the roof of Philadelphia's International House on the edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sun Ra's poetry and mythological pronouncements were filmed in the Egyptian Room of the University of Pennsylvania's anthropology museum, in a sculpture garden in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., and inside and outside of the house he shared with key band members in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Interviews with band members were filmed inside and outside of the house, as well as inside their nearby Pharaoh's Den food store, and a band rehearsal and a solo keyboard performance were filmed in the house as well. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience. Songs performed in the film include such Sun Ra classics as 'Astro Black,' 'Mister Mystery,' 'We Travel the Spaceways,' 'Along Came Ra/The Living Myth,' 'Spaceship Earth (Destination Unknown), 'Requiem for Trevor Johnson,' and many more. This release also includes extended audio versions of these and other songs.

Media

Named one of RECORD COLLECTOR's Best of 2016

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Bonus Materials

  • Extended audio of live performances.
  • Extended audio of live performances.
  • Extended audio of live performances.

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:
  •       Sun Ra and his Arkestra

Director: ROBERT MUGGE

Producer: ROBERT MUGGE

Additional Details

Label: Mug-Shot Productions

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 60 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/11/15

UPC: 760137750192

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