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It looks like the Sam Records website has crashed. I can't access it. Anyone else have this issue? Edit: I got one page to work eventually, but it still has issues. There's 420 copies of Vol 1 in stock right now. 110 € each.

That's fair. There's a lot of Sun Ra to wade through right now. But I'd still like to hear all of that Transition acetate @romualdo linked since it has some other Transition artists on it too. It seems unlikely it will ever get an official release for that reason though.

I'd really like to hear the Dave Coleman track from that acetate more so than the Sun Ra tracks. Does anyone still have the sample from the auction? Has a proper tracklisting of that acetate ever been released? I think some of it has seen release, possibly Eve from this compilation as it's from this era according to the description, but I'm not sure. Maybe some on the CD Transitions 1: Spaceship Bop (1955-57)? I know there's mp3s of a Sun Ra Transition acetate, but the source isn't clear. In Tom Lord's jazz book the session includes the following (bold indicates unreleased, though these ones are the mp3s floating around): Maybe there were some more?

Available Feb 1, Sam Records is reissuing Sun Ra's first album on Transition, along with a matching volume 2 that was intended for Transition but eventually released by Delmark instead. It's limited to 500 copies, but I don't believe it contains anything that isn't already available elsewhere apart from the matching artwork. There's some previews of how it looks on Instagram now. https://www.instagram.com/p/DFA0eh9O7Ay/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DE5lEjMvaTw/

Does anyone still have the audio from the listings for this acetate? The original listing had three samples, and they don't appear anywhere else that I can see. I'd be very keen to hear them if possible, especially the Coleman and Gordon samples. As an aside, this blog post from 2012 mentioned Michael D. Anderson was producing a Sun Ra compilation "The Complete Transition Recordings (2) CD’s (2) recording sessions (w/lots of unreleased recordings)", which I don't think ever came out. I wonder if it would have included similar outtakes as on this acetate.

Sorry to revive such an old thread, but do you recall whether there were other unissued albums on that list? There were quite a few albums listed in the Transition booklets and brochures that never came out, and I'm curious if they even existed. I made a discography listing them all here.

Did you ever get a copy of this? I was looking for the article too. I saw a partial scan that suggests there was a Transition article in Metronome Magazine April 1956 page 9, but haven't seen a full scan of the article yet.