Re: SR museum?hipness
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Sun, 2010-03-28 10:15
Re: SR museum?hipness
Sun Ra said once, "This represents someone's hopes and dreams. Don't be so hip"
and besides, the museum has already been and gone: http://sunraarkive.blogspot.com/2009/07/sun-ra-events-at-philly-ica-museum-= in.html
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Len(Ni) Bukowski lennibukowski@aol.comw= rote:
I'll go away for a while now. The list will be nice. You can come back. lenni
-----Original Message----- From: Townsend squeezbx@olypen.com To: SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL Sent: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 12:19 pm Subject: Re: SR museum?hipness
I simply don't accept Mr. Scott's condemnations and guilt trips. Even if the hoe fits, I choose to go barefoot. If admonishments from on high are what list members seek, include me out.= I will eek inspiration elsewhere. How do I unsubscribe?
-----Original Message----- rom: Sun Ra and his Arkestra [mailto:SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL]On Behalf Of en(Ni) Bukowski ent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 6:08 AM o: SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL ubject: Re: SR museum?hipness
ethinks a history lesson is needed. noel Scott is a member of the Arkestra. noel Scott has been a member of the Arkestra for many years. noel Scott has studied with Sun Ra. noel Scott knows of the Ancient Wisdom. noel Scott is in the "inner circle." hus, Knoel Scott IS hipper than thou, Jack, dig?!
----Original Message----- rom: Townsend squeezbx@olypen.com o: SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL ent: Sat, Mar 27, 2010 10:01 pm ubject: Re: SR museum?
- you people"
- sucking the life blood"
- you wouldn't understand anyway"
- orry, guess I'm not enough of an ass kisser to agree with this
- pper-than-thou crap.
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- om: Sun Ra and his Arkestra [mailto:SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL]On Behalf Of
- oel Scott
- nt: Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:29 AM
- SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL bject: Re: SR museum? s there a museum of the Christ? n Ras legacy resounds in the creativity of the Arkestra, AACM, World xophone Qt; answ<er to your question? Yes Sunny would delight in his legacy being attered to the four winds ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;winds such as the Orchestra in e Republic of Tuva (siberia) which basded its concept on the Sun Ra kestra, to that crazy japanesese Big band, to the poetry of Imamu Amiri raka s time you people dug in your souls and spririts and created some beauty stead o=E7f just sucking the life blood out of the Creative Artsts then ewing on their bones in Museums; EATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE CREATE hat is the greatest legacy Sun Ra could have.........The rest, you wouldn= t t i;e; understand anyway his is the viewpoint of Knoel Scott, prodigal son of Sun Ra
- om: Margaret Davis Grimes musicmargaret@earthlink.net
- SATURN@NIC.SURFNET.NL nt: Fri, March 26, 2010 5:12:53 PM bject: Re: SR museum? i, Doctor. I assume Maestro Marshall Allen would choose the project nager and the place, and I don't know where the necessary funding would me from, though I shouldn't think it would cost much if the collection uld be housed in an already established place. But this idea did not iginate with me, it was discussed on this list several years ago, and I ought the Sun Ra Museum was already being developed at that time. I'll e what I can find out about it. < >> < <>> <> > n Friday, March 26, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Dr. Anton J. Kuchelmeister wrote: ppreciating the opinions and arguments by the several contributors, so fa= r. ill missing many others? owever, not to concentrate right now, or only, on the question of a tential most suitable location, I think what much more important is are e other aspects raised, may I repeat them: Such a project will need a visionary, energetic, empowered and empoweri= ng oject manager to run the project through planning, implementation and eration. Where would the necessary funding come from? his would impact strongly further steps... < >> << > >< >> n Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:05:06 +0100, Margaret Davis Grimes wrote: hen will Sun Ra ever get his Museum? There are scores and collections an= d chives at the Library of Congress, at Berklee, in Alabama and iladelphia, in Europe and Japan, here, there, and yonder... When will th= e n Ra Museum come true? Or would he have liked the idea of having his gacy scattered to the four winds? What do you all think or know about is? < >> << > >< > > ttp://tinyurl.com/yfn4hdz Chicago Jazz Music Examiner" he Chicago link between Sun Ra and the Governor of Massachusetts y Neil Tesser (ressetn@aol.com) arch 24, 2010 un Ra: What's his link to the Massachusetts Governor? Later today, the vernor of Massachusetts will officially present a collection of morabilia - hundreds of musical scores, photos, recordings, and other ems - to the Berklee College of Music's Africana Studies Archive. They'r= e king a full day of it, too, with performances by students and faculty at rklee (the leading jazz school in America), along with speeches by the vernor, school officials, and the celebrated poet and activist Amiri raka. hat follows is a simple little tale of how that collection of memorabilia de its way to Boston via New York, Chicago -- and the planet Saturn. t starts, however, in East Moline, 150 miles east west of Chicago - the rthplace of Laurdine Kenneth Patrick in 1929. Along the way to becoming = a zz saxophonist, Laurdine (quite understandably) acquired the more nageable nickname "Pat." And that's the name you find on all of the earl= y cordings by the cosmo-musical explorer Sun Ra. n fact, as award-winning author John Szwed points out in his much admired ography of Sun Ra, Patrick played an extremely important role in the reer of the young bandleader, back when Ra was the Chicago pianist still own as Herman "Sonny" Blount. This was before he created his personal ilosophy, a mystic hodgepodge hybridized from science fiction and Egyptia= n thology, which became one of Sun Ra's trademarks -- along with the sionary, rollicking music that accompanied it. atrick, who specialized in baritone sax but also excelled at alto (and casionally played electric bass), had moved to Chicago primarily to study DuSable High School with the legendary bandleader Walter Dyett. Even en, Dyett enjoyed a reputation for developing disciplined and motivated sicians. And Patrick stands out among the most impressive DuSable alumni= , o have included saxophone great Von Freeman, bass icon Wilbur Ware, and e peerless vocalist Dinah Washington). n 1952, Patrick joined Blount / Ra in a new trio on Chicago's south side; would eventually blossom into one of the most unusual and influential chestras in jazz, the Sun Ra Arkestra (as it was most often called). The nd was known as much for their metallic capes and headgear -- trust me, ne Simmons had nothing on these guys -- as for their innovative, her-worldly music. Over the decades, Patrick would come and go, a stament to the high regard in which Sun Ra held him: other key members of e Arkestra lived communally under the watchful eye of the leader (in part that "Sunny" could ensure their abstinence from vices of all kinds). n 1963, the versatile Patrick hired on as musical director of Mongo ntamaria's Latin-jazz group - the one that had the giant hit "Watermelon n." Everyone knows that tune. Not so many recall another Santamaria hit lled "Yeh! Yeh!" Patrick wrote that one; eventually it gained lyrics and imbed the pop charts, thanks to British rock-&-roller Georgie Fame's hit cording of 1965. atrick also recorded with John Coltrane and performed in Duke Ellington's nd. He worked with Thelonious Monk and Clark Terry and co-founded a grou= p lled Baritone Retinue. All along the way, he was collecting musical periences - and memorabilia. And he often returned to Sun Ra, as he did r the 1970 performance in Berlin documented below. y then, his son Deval Patrick - born in 1956, but estranged from his fath= er r years - had turned 14. Having moved with his mother to Massachusetts, graduated from the prestigious Milton Academy in 1974. Then he went to rvard. Then Harvard Law, in 1979. Fifteen years later, he was named sistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under President Clinton. And i= n 06, Deval Patrick became the first African-American Governor of the mmonwealth of Massachusetts. t is in that capacity that he dedicates to Berklee the collection of his ther's memorabilia and writings. He also does this in the capacity of a spectful son: Pat Patrick died in 1991, but not before he and Deval could concile. Although the father did not approve of his son's entry into instream politics, they nonetheless found common ground in the music. n Tuesday, the Governor told the Boston Herald: "What's satisfying is ving his material appreciated. Frankly, even for my sisters and me, we ren't quite sure what we were sitting on . . . It seemed to have value cause my father had paid attention to accumulating and preserving it ring his life. So it's great to have the folks at Berklee, who seem so cited about this material, take custody of it and share it with students.= " oday, the son of a man who played with the Sun of Saturn honors his fathe= r th a trove of history - and at least a bit of stardust, emanating from hi= s icago roots. # #
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