It was November 1979. I was at Soundscape, a loft space on the corner of West 52nd Street and 10th Avenue, and I had come to see Sun Ra and his Arkestra. It was maybe the 12th or 13th time I'd seen him live. Well into an hour-long (actually 72-minute) piece entitled The Possibility of Altered Destiny, Sun Ra led the band on a march through the audience,…
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