Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988

Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988
Live album by Sun Ra Arkestra
Released	1988
Recorded	August 8, 1988
Venue	Pit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Genre	Free jazz
Length	58:22
Label	DIW
Producer	Kohei Kawakami & Zen Matsuura
Sun Ra chronology
Hours After (1986) Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988 (1988) Somewhere Else (1989)

Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988, AKA Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion, is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Tokyo in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label. ^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Jesse Jarnow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The recording captures the band sympathetically, managing to keep the chaos under control through a crisp and deep mix... a good introduction to Sun Ra's work". ^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated

1. " Introduction/Cosmo Approach Prelude" – 7:29
2. "Angel Race/I Wait for You" – 7:18
3. "Can You Take It?" – 3:14
4. "If You Came from Nowhere Here" – 10:27
5. "Astro Black" – 11:23
6. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon) – 5:11
7. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:57
8. "Insterstellar Lo-Ways" – 7:23

Personnel

• Sun Ra – piano, synthesizer, vocals
• Michael Ray – trumpet, vocals on "Why Was I Born?"
• Ahmed Abdullah – trumpet
• Tyrone Hill – trombone
• Marshall Allen – alto saxophone
• John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, timbales
• Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone
• Eloe Omoe – bass clarinet, alto saxophone, contra-alto clarinet
• June Tyson – violin, vocals on "Astro Black"
• Bruce Edwards – electric guitar
• Rollo Radford – electric bass
• Eric Walker, Earl "Buster" Smith – drums

References

1. Sun Ra discography Archived March 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 21, 2010
2. Jarnow, J., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014