On Wednesday night, the indefatigable Sun Ra Arkestra leader regaled in a jeweled cape and played a captivating 90-minute set.
was released on Valentine’s Day, it was hailed as an unprecedented event — the “debut solo album” by a 100-year-old jazz legend.
Allen, clad in his Arkestran finery of sequined gold cap and multihued cape, took the stage to rapturous applause, introduced by baritone saxophonist, flutist, and clarinetist Knoel Scott. It couldn’t be easy. An inveterate improviser, Allen is never one to stick to a plan, always subject to the whim of the moment. After Scott announced the album’s title track and brought out vocalist Ayanna Wildgoose, Allen essayed a lovely, breathy solo on alto sax. Then he wandered over to the string section, engaging the quartet in a back and forth and transforming the song into Sun Ra’s mesmeric ballad “Springtime Again.
That was followed by “Are You Ready,” a stomping number indebted to early rock and roll, propelled by Edwards’ Chuck Berry-esque guitar riffs. The raucous tempo spurred Allen to some of his most blistering altos of the night, drawing his trademark screams and bellows from the sax with a piercing ferocity undimmed by age.
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