{"product_id":"uncharted-passages-090771827111","title":"Uncharted Passages","description":"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.","brand":"Modern Harmonic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46178462793811,"sku":"2699010X","price":42.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4402672_a8c7dee4-95c7-4189-8a52-5e6a94a74fb0.jpg?v=1788790327","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/uncharted-passages-090771827111","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}