Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent - Omniverse Sun Ra (3rd Revised Edition) Book
$89.98
Label: Art Yard
Release Date: June 26th, 2026
Hardcover, 304 pages.
French fold cover, metallic foil blocking on blue Faimei cloth. Size: 11.42" x 9.65".
Over 30 years after its first publication, this is the 3rd revised edition.
Featuring many photographs of Sun Ra and His Arkestra in New York City in 1966 and in Germany in 1979 (by Val Wilmer) and from Heliopolis Cairo, Egypt in 1971 (by Hartmut Geerken). Featuring a 2025 updated discography by Chris Trent (co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra): comprehensive pictorial, chronological and annotated discography, with alphabetical record titles, compositions, personnel and record labels indexes. Images of shellac records, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm singles plus jackets and labels. Full colour images of hundreds of Sun Ra album covers, posters, handbills and ephemera, including reproductions of rare hand drawn and coloured LP sleeves.
Contains essays by Hartmut Geerken, Val Wilmer, Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist, Salah Ragab, Sigrid Hauff, Karl Heinz Kessler.