Salah Ragab, Sun Ra, The Cairo Jazz Band, The Sun Ra Arkestra

In Egypt

Label: Strut
Format: LP
Release Year: 2022

In stock

28.50

Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983. Salah Ragab first encountered the Arkestra at a concert at the house of Goethe Institut ex-pat Hartmut Geerken during the Arkestra’s first visit to Cairo and Heliopolis in December 1971 and, although Ra and Ragab did not meet in person on that occasion, they did meet and bond together when Ra returned to Egypt in 1983, resulting in these recordings. The Arkestra had been touring Europe in March 1983 and made their way to Cairo, playing a number of concerts during April at the Il Capo / Il Buco venue before recording the two superb studio versions of Ragab compositions, ‘Egypt Strut’ and ‘Dawn’, at El Nahar Studios in Heliopolis in May, featuring Salah Ragab on congas.

Tracks for: In Egypt
A1. The Sun Ra Arkestra - Egypt Strut
06:42
A2. The Sun Ra Arkestra – Dawn
12:19
B1. The Cairo Jazz Band - Ramadan
4:20
B2. Salah Ragab - Oriental Mood
4:50
B3. The Cairo Jazz Band - A Farewell Theme
10:06

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