Images: The Music of Sun Ra
Dan Clucas - trumpet
David Boyce - tenor saxophone
Phillip Greenlief - alto saxophone
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Dominique Leone - synthesizer bass
Sam Ospovat - drums
A host of Bay Area experimentalists pay tribute to the man and band from outer space: Sun Ra and his Arkestra of many names. As a space age artist and adventurer, Ra's kaleidoscopic vision encompassed a staggering variety of styles and innovations: doo-wop, Hendersonian big band jazz, exotica, early electronic music, 20th century western art music, post-bop, and free jazz, among many others. Images presents arrangements of music and ideas drawn from the full spectrum of the Arkestra repertoire, placing a special emphasis on Ra's freewheeling take on the jazz vernacular.
8pm to 10:30pm, Berkeley Arts - 2133 University Avenue, between Shuattuck & Oxford
$34.50 advance / $36.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison