{"product_id":"sun-ra-uncharted-passages","title":"Sun Ra: Uncharted Passages - VINYL","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eUncharted Passages\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eSun Ra\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eModern Harmonic\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eVINYL LP\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e090771827111\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eJazz\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2025-03-21\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e2\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eAdditional Details: \u003c\/b\u003eCOLORED VINYL, YELLOW\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Double yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. 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 \"jazz café\" called The Axis-in-Soho.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sun Ra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60263235518545,"sku":"Cp1-44931834","price":12.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1034\/5778\/3889\/files\/4402672-3322372_31d708ae-d912-4c06-99e4-d1a040f5189d.jpg?v=1788200896","url":"https:\/\/vinylkingdom.com\/products\/sun-ra-uncharted-passages","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}