Wendell Harrison - The 8th House: Riding With Pluto - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sidecars - Everest [COMPACT DISCS] Spain - Import date 11/21/2025

Sun Ra was a master of misdirection. Tape boxes wrongly labeled-whether by accident or design-are legendary among Ra archivists. One can speculate about the artist's intent or carelessness, but source misinformation abounds on Ra tape cases, album jackets, cassettes, ephemera-as well as in interviews. It's as if Ra, in furtherance of his own mythmaking, wanted to keep historians guessing.This project began as a misidentified tape discovered by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive. The 7-inch reel, which contained a live Ra solo piano performance of 11 works-some recognizable, others not-was of stellar quality, and was marked as a 1979 Carnegie Hall date. But the program on the tape did not align with known facts (e.g., titles played, concert duration) which were chronicled in a Newsday review of Ra's appearance at Carnegie in September of that year. With a prod from writer/historian Ted Gioia and further research by myself, the tape was eventually identified as a mostly unreleased July 1977 performance by Ra at a downtown NYC Inchjazz caféInch called The Axis-in-Soho.

Recorded live at the Detroit Institute of Arts on July 20,2025, A Tribute to Pharoah Sanders captures Detroit reedmaster Wendell Harrison and his ensemble TRIBE in atranscendent performance honoring Harrison's longtimefriend and fellow jazz icon. The concert-part of Detroit'sConcert of Colors festival and later broadcast onPBS-finds Harrison channeling Sanders' spirit throughdeep tenor cries, hypnotic grooves, and Afro-spiritualimprovisation.Joined by an exceptional group of musicians including SkyCovington, Pamela Wise, Michael Abbo, Sam Melkonian,Kevin Dalton Jones, Allen Denard, Edward Gooche,Stephen Grady, Roberto Warren, and special guests,Harrison leads an inspired exploration of sound and soul.This limited LP will be released on vinyl exclusively forRecord Store Day 2026.