Sun Ra web site

[Lazaro Vega]

http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/

[jazzbo]

A great resource I've been enjoying for seven years or so I think!

The discography is very well done and was very helpful to me in regards the Chicago and NYC periods especially.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Please note that the discography on that site is problematic - it is the result of collaborative efforts from about 10-15 years ago (I was part of the workforce). Subsequently in 1994, Robert Campbell (a major original contributor) published The Earthly Recordings Of Sun Ra and the online version stopped evolving as it had, much to the distress of the other numerous contributors.

In 2003, Campbell's book received a second, much improved and expanded edition (with the additional help of Chris Trent). The original book was 247 pages, the second edition is 847 pages. There is a third edition in the works.

What is on the website has been slightly updated since 1993 - which is *twelve* years now - but unfortunately it's not the best available information. Campbell and Trent (understandably) reserve new discoveries for the published books, and other contributors won't bother to update online what is already out-of-date.

Mike

[brownie]

Michael, thanks for the info about the third edition of the Campbell Sun Ra book.

I have the first edition and was thinking about getting that second version.

Will wait for the next one!

[jazzbo]

That online version has worked fine for me in helping me collect the Chicago and NYC recordings and I haven't found it to steer me wrong.

I'm not that anal and this is anal enough for ME.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Well, I recommend contacting Campbell - my info is from here:

http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/earthlies.html

The wait might be long - I don't know.

Mike

And I will readily agree that the website works just fine as a shopping guide - but that's not the only purpose of a discography, probably not even the primary intended purpose.

Edited May 14, 2005 by Michael Fitzgerald

[Guest]

Mr. fitzgerald:

are you saying that the updated ra disco. has DOUBLE the recordings in it??

[Lazaro Vega]

Kinda suprised the Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3 isn't listed in the "New Releases" catagory as it is popping up on "best of" lists for 2005.

[7/4]

Kinda suprised the Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3 isn't listed in the "New Releases" catagory as it is popping up on "best of" lists for 2005.

I haven't done my list yet - the first in a few years - but it will be in my list.