Sun Ra And The Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra - The Complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency (2007)

Sun Ra and the Arkestra played a week of eleven concerts at the Detroit Jazz Center. The shows were organized and soundboard recorded by Rick Steiger (a collaborator of John Sinclair). On New Year's Eve the Arkestra performed nearly a hundred Sun Ra compositions in three different sets. Remastered from the original cassette soundboard recordings by Christopher Eddy. Limited edition of 500 copies, originally a 28 cd-r set from 2007 in an edition of 400.

Tracklist
Friday December 26, 1980
1st Set
1-1 Sun Ra Accepts The Key To The City Of Detroit
1-2 Discipline 27
1-3 Untitled Improv
1-4 Queer Notions
1-5 Yeah Man!
1-6 Round Midnight
1-7 Space Lonliness
1-8 Lady Bird / Half Nelson
1-9 Cocktails For Two
1-10 Big John's Special
1-11 Love In Outer Space (Includes Long Drum Section)
2-1 Fate In A Pleasant Mood
2-2 Space Is The Place
2-3 Untitled Improv
2-4 We Travel The Spaceways
2-5 Gone With The Wind
Encore
2-6 Angel Race / This Place Is Not My Home / Stranger In Paradise / Astro Nation
2-7 Greetings From The 21st Century / Interplanetary Music / Moonship Journey / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Rocket Number Nine / Do That Thang / Pluto Too
2nd Set
2-8 Discipline 27
2-9 Untitled Improv
2-10 Untitled Improv
2-11 Enlightenment
2-12 The Satellites Are Spinning
2-13 Blue Lou
2-14 Unidentified Title
3-1 Spontaneous Simplicity
3-2 Images
3-3 Unidentified Blues
3-4 Stompy Jones
3-5 Over The Rainbow
3-6 I Can't Get Started
Saturday December 27, 1980
1st Set
4-1 Untitled Improv
4-2 Hymn To The Sun
4-3 Untitled Improv
4-4 Untitled Improv
4-5 Untitled Improv (Organ And Percussion)
4-6 Big John's Special
4-7 Unidentified Title
4-8 Take The A Train
4-9 Lightnin'
5-1 Slippery Horn
5-2 Solitude
5-3 Exactly Like You
5-4 The Mayan Temples
5-5 The Sound Mirror
5-6 Right Road, Wrong Direction
5-7 Bad Truth
5-8 Shoulder To Shoulder
5-9 Sea Of Immortality
5-10 To Be Or Not To Be
5-11 Ra Ra Ra
5-12 Over The Rainbow
5-13 Calling Planet Earth
5-14 Enlightenment
5-15 The Satellites Are Spinning
6-1 Love In Outer Space
6-2 Yeah Man!
6-3 Space Is The Place
6-4 We Travel The Spaceways
6-5 Announcer
2nd Set
6-6 Untitled Improv (Kora)
6-7 Discipline 27-11
6-8 The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Computer In The Sky / Private Eye In The Sky / Another Kind Of Glory / I Have Many Names / Mystery, Mr. Ra / You Have No Life Certificate / I Am A Different Kind Of Being / The Universe Sent Me To Converse With You / Stranger In Paradise / Do You Have Rights For Angels? / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Bad Truth / You're Just Babies In The Universe
6-9 Bad Truth / Moonship Journey / Sea Of Immortality / Astro Nation / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You
6-10 Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter
7-1 Untitled Improv
7-2 We'll Be Together Again
7-3 The Sunny Side Of The Street
7-4 King Porter Stomp
7-5 Spontaneous Simplicity
7-6 Space Lonliness
7-7 Lights On A Satellite
7-8 Watusi
8-1 Big John's Special
8-2 Strange Celestial Road
8-3 Hit That Jive Jack / Gone With The Wind
8-4 Announcer
Sunday December 28, 1980
1st Set
9-1 Untitled Improv (Kora) / Jingle Bells / Untitled Improv / Hymn To The Sun
9-2 Along Came Ra / Mystery Mr. Ra
9-3 Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv / Unidentified Title
9-4 Unidentified Title
9-5 Unidentified Blues
9-6 Three Little Words
10-1 Sleeping Beauty
10-2 Fate In A Pleasant Mood
10-3 El Is A Sound Of Joy
10-4 South America
10-5 Africa
10-6 The Satellites Are Spinning
10-7 Saturn Rings / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings
10-8 Announcer
2nd Set
11-1 Untitled Improv
11-2 Unidentified Title
11-3 Discipline 27-11
11-4 You Are Living On The Other Side Of Time / I Am Sin / Sunset
11-5 The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Private Eye In The Sky
11-6 You'd Better Mind What You're Saying
11-7 Untitled Improv
11-8 Deep Purple
11-9 Unidentified Title
11-10 Big John's Special
11-11 Yeah Man!
12-1 Body And Soul
12-2 Queer Notions
12-3 Discipline 99
12-4 Images
12-5 Unidentified Blues
12-6 Lady Bird / Half Nelson
12-7 Watusi
13-1 Destination Unknown / Untitled Improv / Untitled Improv (Synthesizer) / Destination Unknown
13-2 Space Is The Place
13-3 We Travel The Spaceways
13-4 Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings / Third Heaven / Neptune
Monday December 29, 1980
14-1 Unidentified Title (Kora, Bass, Percussion, Etc)
14-2 Pleiades (Flutes And Bells Only)
14-3 Before Sun Comes Out
14-4 Discipline 27 / Unidentified Improv
14-5 Spontaneous Simplicity
14-6a Oblique Parallax (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
14-6b Queer Notions
14-7 Big John's Special
14-8 Yeah Man!
15-1 Lights On A Satellite
15-2 Love In Outer Space
15-3 We'll Be Together Again (Organ And Rhythm Only)
16-1 Space Lonliness
16-2 Destination Unknown / The Space Age Is Here To Stay / Unidentified Improv (Synthesizer Only) / Calling Planet Earth
16-3 Space Is The Place
16-4 We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You / I Could've Enjoyed Myself On The Planet / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / Satellites Are Spinning / Journey To Saturn / We Travel The Spaceways / Interplanetary Music / Face The Music / Strange Celestial Road / Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space / Hit That Jive, Jack / Gone With The Wind
Encore
16-5 Astro Nation
16-6 King Porter Stomp
16-7 Fate In A Pleasant Mood
16-8 Announcer
Tuesday December 30, 1980
17-1 Untitled Improv (Kora, French Horn, Etc)
17-2 Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv (Alto Sax, Trumpet, Etc.)
17-3 The Last Days / Crazy As A Daisy
17-4 Calling Planet Earth
17-5 Queer Notions
17-6 What's New?
17-7 Springtime Again
17-8 Space Loneliness
17-9 Cocktails For Two
18-1 Lights On A Satellite
18-2 Big John's Special
18-3 Love In Outer Space
18-4 Enlightenment
18-5 The Shadow World
19-1 The Shadow World (Continued)
19-2 Journey To Stars Beyond (Part 2) / Space Is The Place
19-3 Over The Rainbow (Organ Only)
19-4 Space Is The Place
19-5 We Travel The Spaceways / Outer Spaceways Inc. / We Travel The Spaceways / Hit That Jive, Jac / Moonship Journey / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / I'll Wait For You / We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / Stranger In Paradise / This World Is Not My Home / We Travel The Spaceways
19-6 Announcer
Wednesday December 31, 1980
1st Set - 8:00 PM
20-1 Untitled Improv (Percussion. Kora) / Untitled Improv (Horns) / Unidentified Title (Flutes) / Auld Lang Syne
20-2 Astro Black
20-3 Tapestry From An Asteroid
20-4 Along Came Ra
20-5 Discipline 27
20-6 Island In The Sun
21-1 A Foggy Day
21-2 How Am I To Know?
21-3 Images
21-4 New Horizons
21-5 There Will Never Be Another You
21-6 Celestial Realms
21-7 Stardust From Tomorrow
21-8 Enlightenment
22-1 Somebody Else's Idea / I Wouldn't Make A World Like This
22-2 Bad Truth / Somebody Might Push The Button
22-3 The Impossible Is Your Only Hope / Sea Of Immortality
22-4 Untitled Improv
22-5 They'll Come Back / There Are Other Worlds / Take The Big Gamble (On The Dark Horse)
22-6 Announcement: Get Your Passport From Me
2nd Set - 11:00 PM
23-1 Untitled Improv (Percussion, Kora)
23-2 When There Is No Sun / Are You Spotless?
23-3 Discipline 27-11 / I Am The Tempter / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Discipline 27-11
23-4 Auld Lang Syne
23-5 Big John's Special
23-6 El Is The Sound Of Joy
23-7 Beyond The Purple Star Zone (Journey To Stars Beyond) (Part 1)
23-8 The World Of Africa
23-9 Rose Room
24-1 Halloween In Harlem
24-2 Journey To Saturn / Saturn's Rings
24-3 You Got To Head Out To Space One Day / Never Never Land
24-4 Everything Is Space
24-5 Fate In A Pleasant Mood
24-6 Strange Worlds / Black Myth
24-7 Medicine For A Nightmare / Untitled Improv
24-8 Rocket Number Nine / The Space Age Is Here To Stay
24-9 Face The Music
25-1 St. Louis Blues
25-2 Watusi
25-3 Sunology / The Lion Of The Heavens
25-4 Planet Earth
25-5 Third Heaven / Why Go To The Moon? We Travel The Spaceways / Imagination
25-6 Announcer
Thursday January 1, 1981
3rd Set - 3:00 AM
26-1 On Green Dolphin Street
26-2 Untitled Improv
26-3 Outer Space Is Such A Pleasant Place
26-4 Myth Vs Reality
26-5 Strange Worlds / Black Myth
27-1 Untitled Improv
27-2 Vista Omniverse (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
27-3 Tea For Two
27-4 Blue Lou
27-5 King Porter Stomp
27-6 Yeah, Man!
27-7 Deep Purple
27-8 Keep Your Sunny Side Up
27-9 Interstellar Low Ways
27-10 The Satellites Are Spinning
27-11 Stompin' At The Savoy
27-12 Mayan Temples
28-1 Unidentified Title
28-2 Queer Notions
28-3 Willow Weep For Me
28-4a Space Lonliness
28-4b Round Midnight
28-5 Limehouse Blues
28-6 Discipline 99
28-7 Space Is The Place / We Travel The Spaceways / Greetings From The 21st Century / Strange Celestial Road
28-8 Announcer