# Nothing Is...

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***Nothing Is...*** is a [live album](/source/Live_album) by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist [Sun Ra](/source/Sun_Ra), recorded in 1966 and released on the [ESP-Disk](/source/ESP-Disk) label in 1970.[1] In 2010 ESP-Disk released ***College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is...*** an expanded 2xCD edition, restoring the full concert on disc one and adding part of the second set and some tracks from the sound check on disc two.

## Reception

The [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic) review by Lindsay Planer stated: "Sun Ra and his Arkestra issued only a handful of titles on the groundbreaking indie ESP-Disk label. Each title respectively contains some of their most expressive musical statements to date".[2]

## Track listing

- *All compositions by Sun Ra*

### Original LP

#### Side A

1. "Dancing Shadows" – 9:50
1. "Imagination" – 1:53
1. "Exotic Forest" – 9:50

#### Side B

1. "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" – 1:58
1. "Shadow World" – 13:48
1. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 0:40
1. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" – 1:42
1. "Next Stop Mars" – 0:38

- - Track lengths on cover differ significantly from actual playing times given above. - This version is also available on CD (without the bonus tracks below) as ZYX/ESP 1045-2.

### 2005 CD bonus tracks

1. "Velvet" – 7:20
1. "Outer Nothingness" – 15:43
1. "We Travel the Spaceways" – 1:30

- - Recorded live on tour of New York state colleges May 18, 1966.

### *College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is...*

#### Disc one (05/18/1966 – first set)

1. "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" – 14:02
1. "The Shadow World" – 4:40
1. "Interpolation" – 2:18
1. "The Satellites Are Spinning" – 1:17
1. "Advice to Medics" – 2:50
1. "Velvet" – 8:16
1. "Space Aura" – 10:26
1. "The Exotic Forest" – 9:43
1. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 1:52
1. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" – 2:24
1. "Dancing Shadows" – 9:45
1. "Imagination" – 0:40
1. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" – 1:12
1. "Next Stop Mars" – 0:41

#### Disc two (05/18/1966 – partial second set and sound check)

1. "The Satellites Are Spinning" – 9:08
1. "Velvet" – 7:10
1. "Interplanetary Chaos" – 4:35
1. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 1:30
1. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" – 11:16
1. "We Travel the Spaceways" – 1:42
1. "Nothing Is" – 6:13
1. "It Is Eternal" – 12:37
1. "State Street" – 8:21
1. The Exotic Forest" – 4:32

## Personnel

- [Sun Ra](/source/Sun_Ra) – [piano](/source/Piano), [clavioline](/source/Clavioline)
- Ali Hassan, Teddy Nance – [trombone](/source/Trombone)
- [Marshall Allen](/source/Marshall_Allen) – [alto saxophone](/source/Alto_saxophone), [flute](/source/Flute), [piccolo](/source/Piccolo), [oboe](/source/Oboe)
- [John Gilmore](/source/John_Gilmore_(musician)) – [tenor saxophone](/source/Tenor_saxophone)
- [Pat Patrick](/source/Pat_Patrick_(musician)) – [baritone saxophone](/source/Baritone_saxophone), flute
- Robert Cummings – [bass clarinet](/source/Bass_clarinet)
- James Jacson – flute, [log drums](/source/Log_drums)
- [Ronnie Boykins](/source/Ronnie_Boykins) – [bass](/source/Double_bass), [tuba](/source/Tuba)
- [Clifford Jarvis](/source/Clifford_Jarvis), [Roger Blank](/source/Roger_Blank), Jimmy Johnson – [drum](/source/Drum_kit)
- Carl S. Malone, Nimrod Hunt – sun horn, [gong](/source/Gong)

## References

1. [Sun Ra discography](http://homepage.uab.edu/moudry/disc_b.htm#31.) accessed July 20, 2010

1. Planer, L. [ Allmusic Review] accessed July 20, 2010

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