{"id":101987,"date":"2022-03-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=101987"},"modified":"2022-03-16T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:47:36","slug":"sun-ra-arkestra-cairo-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sun-ra-arkestra-cairo-jazz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band in new reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strut Records presents the final installment in their series of Sun Ra reissues with this new project recorded in Egypt in 1983.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Egyption percussionist Salah Ragab\u2019s first interaction with <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sun-ra\/\">Sun Ra<\/a> was at a concert in 1971. This event happened five years after the creation of the Cairo Jazz Band, founded by Ragab himself alongside German musician Hartmut Geerken and Eduard \u201cEdu\u201d Vizvari. While serving as \u201cChief of Egypt&#8217;s Military Department of Music&#8221;, he chose 25 professional musicians of the thousands-large group he was in charge of, and organized the Cairo Jazz Band\u2019s first concert in 1969, while Geerken and Vizvari arranged and composed for the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=321049993\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunrastrut.bandcamp.com\/album\/sun-ra-arkestra-meets-salah-ragab-in-egypt\">Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt by Sun Ra Arkestra &amp; Salah Ragab<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Ragab and Sun Ra did not interact extensively in 1971, Sun Ra had come to Gerkeen\u2019s invitation, they did bond together when Ra returned to Egypt in 1983 after a European tour, leading the musician and his orchestra to record an entire album with the Cairo Jazz Band. At El Nahar Studios in Heliopolis, the two bands played the studio versions of Ragab\u2019s compositions \u201cEgypt Struth\u201d and \u201cDawn\u201d, and recorded three other songs with Ragab on congas. The original record of <em>\u200b\u200bSun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt<\/em> was released in 1983 via Greek label Praxis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British label Strut Records is now set to reissue the project. A true dive into history, each track of the album has a special anecdote, from \u201cA Farewell Theme\u201d being played at president Gamal Abdel Nasser\u2019s funeral to \u201cRamadan\u201d and \u201cOriental Mood\u201d being first heard on the Cairo Jazz Orchestra album <em>Egypt Strut<\/em>. This reissue will also feature previously unseen photos and memorabilia alongside brand new liner notes by Hartmut Geerken and Paul Griffiths. You can already listen to \u201cEgypt Strut\u201d, already available and remastered by Technology Works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt<\/em>, out on April 8 via <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/strut-records\/\">Strut<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Sun Ra Arkestra in our Songs of the Week playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2Pz0eyg\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/30zVbUA\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-1010x1010.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-1010x1010.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-759x759.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-661x661.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-375x375.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-85x85.jpeg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band-73x73.jpeg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/sun-ra-cairo-jazz-band.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strut Records presents the final installment in their series of Sun Ra reissues with this new project recorded in Egypt in 1983.&nbsp; Egyption percussionist Salah Ragab\u2019s first interaction with Sun Ra was at a concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":101989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41219,23842,30275,29070,29069],"location":[7958],"yst_prominent_words":[16186,16133,16185],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101987"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=101987"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=101987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}