Fostering intercontinental cooperation in spite of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin joins forces with Roulette to present a two-day concert marathon between the cutting edge scenes of Berlin and New York, with live acts on both sides of the Atlantic. This presentation is an exclusive rebroadcast of the program on The Quarantine Concerts stage.

Fostering intercontinental cooperation in spite of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin joins forces with Roulette to present a two-day concert marathon between the cutting edge scenes of Berlin and New York, with live acts on both sides of the Atlantic. This presentation is an exclusive rebroadcast of the program on The Quarantine Concerts stage.

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.