CHARLES RUMBACK (drums) will perform two sets of his music with JIM BAKER (piano), JOHN TATE (bass), & GREG WARD (alto sax). (Photo by Jacob Hand.)

Rather than using the Sun Ra/El Saturn Commission to comment on the life and work of Sun Ra, drummer Mike Reed decided to focus on one particular tape in the Archive (labeled "NY 1961"), more interested in using someone's discarded musical ideas as source material for entirely new music—regardless of whose ideas they happen to be.