Live in Egypt 1
{{Short description|Live album by Sun Ra}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Live in Egypt 1
| type = live
| artist = Sun Ra and his Arkestra
| cover = SunRaInEgypt1Cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1972
| recorded = December 12–16, 1971
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Free Jazz
| length =
| label = El Saturn Records / Thoth Intergalactic
| producer =
| prev_title = It's After the End of the World
| prev_year = 1972
| next_title = Nidhamu
| next_year = 1972
}}
Live in Egypt 1 is a recording by the jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra, documenting their first visit to Egypt.
Tracks 1-4 are from a television broadcast on December 16, 1971 and include an interview with Sun Ra; tracks 5-7 are recordings made at a domestic concert in Heliopolis 4 days previously.{{cite book | last=Szwed|first=John F| title=Space is the Place: The life and times of Sun Ra | url=https://archive.org/details/spaceisplacelive00szwed1| url-access=registration| publisher=Pantheon| year=1997|isbn=0-86241-722-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/spaceisplacelive00szwed1/page/292 292–293]}}
In various editions, the record has sometimes been known by other titles, "Dark Myth Equation Visitation" and "Nature's God" {{cite web| accessdate = 2008-08-17| title = Sun Ra' discography| url = http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080921165546/http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html| archive-date = 2008-09-21| url-status = dead}}
Track listing
- "Discipline 27"
- "Solar-Ship Voyage"
- "Cosmo-Darkness"
- "The Light Thereof"
- "Friendly Galaxy No 2"
- "To Nature's God"
- "Why Go To The Moon?"
Personnel
- John Gilmore - tenor saxophone
- Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute
- Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
- Kwame Hadi - trumpet, conga drums
- Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone
- Elo Omoe - bass clarinet
- Tommy Hunter - percussion
- Danny Ray Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute
- June Tyson - vocal
- Larry Narthington - alto saxophone, conga drum
- Lex Humphries - percussion
- Clifford Jarvis - percussion
- Hakim Rahim - alto saxophone, flute
- Sun Ra - organ, Mini Moog, piano
- Tam Fiofori - engineer
References
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Category:Live free jazz albums