The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab Plus The Cairo Jazz Band In Egypt

Sun Ra

Saturn's contribution to jazz, the unpeggably eclectic bandleader advanced the genre into the space age, planting the seeds for Afrofuturism.
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Salah Ragab

Drummer Salah Ragab is credited with starting up Egyptian jazz, with his co-founding of the Cairo Jazz Band. He also recorded with the Sun Ra Arkestra on two separate occasions and later with the German…
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The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab Plus The Cairo Jazz Band In Egypt  1983 

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[00:00] 1. The Sun Ra Arkestra– Egypt Strut [06:42] 2. The Sun Ra Arkestra– Dawn [19:01] 3. The Cairo Jazz Band– Ramadan [23:20] 4. Salah Ragab– Oriental Mood [28:08] 5. The Cairo Jazz Band– A Farewell Theme Alto Saxophone – Danny Thompson (tracks: 1, 2), Marshall Allen (tracks: 1, 2) Bass – Esmat Abbas (track: 4), Mohey El-Din (tracks: 3, 5) Bass Clarinet – Lee Roy Taylor (tracks: 1, 2) Bassoon – James Jackson (tracks: 1, 2) Bongos – Sayed Ramadan (tracks: 3, 5) Composed By – Salah Ragab Congas – Salah Ragab (tracks: 1, 2) Drums – Chris Henderson (tracks: 1, 2), Claude Broche (tracks: 1, 2), Eric Walker (tracks: 1, 2), Salah Ragab (tracks: 3, 5) Flute [Bamboo] – Toto Abdel Hameed (track: 4 Keyboards – Sun Ra (tracks: 1, 2) Percussion – Salah Ragab (track: 4) Piano – Khamis El-Khouly (tracks: 3 to 5) Piccolo Flute – Zaky Osman (track: 4) Saxophone – El Zammel (tracks: 3, 5), Saied Aidy (tracks: 3, 5), Farouk Abdou (tracks: 3, 5), Fathi Salam (tracks: 3, 5), Saied Salama (tracks: 3, 5) Tenor Saxophone – John Gilmore (tracks: 1, 2) Trombone – Abdel Atie (tracks: 3, 5), Ali Dahroug (tracks: 3, 5), Mahmoud Auoob (tracks: 3, 5), Sadik Basioni (tracks: 3, 5), Tyrone Hill (tracks: 1, 2) Trumpet – Ibrahim Wa Gdy (tracks: 3, 5), Khalifa Samman (tracks: 3, 5), Mohamad Abdu (tracks: 3, 5), Zaky Osman (tracks: 3, 5) Note: 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. Copyright © – K7 Music GmbH