Since Sun Ra left the planet, Trudy has regularly been stimulating and participating in Tributes to Sun Ra. She has appeared all over the USA and Europe, in performances with many prominent musicians.
| Marshall Allen and Trudy at the 1992 Sun Ra workshop at the New England Conservatory |
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Kidd Jordan and Trudy at the 1994 Sun Ra Tribute at Southern University-New Orleans |
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Eddie Gale also joined Trudy in Sun Ra tributes |
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John Szwed's book, "Space Is The Place - The Lives and Times of Sun Ra mentions Trudy and
her relation to Sun Ra. |
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Anthony Braxton and Michael Taussig offered me encouragement and opportunities to talk about the work publicly at early stages; and Michael Shore, Jerry Gordon, and Trudy Morse - true believers in Sun Ra's cause - have helped me in ways too numerous to list, but the book would be inconceivable without them. The Akestra often depended on friends to find them work and to promote them, especially out of town...on the East Coast Phil Schaap at WKCR and later, Trudy Morse; and in Europe it was Victor Schonfield, Joachim Berendt, Hartmut Geerken, and the Trinidadian fellow mystic Frank Haffa. ..(Ra) was taken to the Baptist Medical
Center-Princeton where they diagnosed him as having pneumonia. After a
week or so of care and medication, he seemed better and he was placed in
intensive care...He had reached the seventy-ninth anniversary of his arrival
on earth, but he had stopped trying to speak and now only grabbed the hands
of those who reached out to him, gripping them so hard that it sometimes
took two people to pry his lingers loose. Jothan brought in a tape player
so he could hear his own music and Duke Ellington's. Trudy Morse read and
chanted his poems to him, especially "This World Is Not My Home":
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