As indicated by its subtitle, this long-awaited Sun Ra biography relishes its avant-jazz subject in all his glorious multiplicity. Fans of the late pianist/bandleader will appreciate Yale University ...
May 22 was the official centennial of the birth of the brilliant bandleader, composer, and keyboardist Sun Ra, but I’m thankful that the entire year is being used to celebrate his memory and ...
A misconception: Sun Ra played free jazz. Critics and listeners usually lump Ra’s dissonant recordings into the free jazz category for one of two reasons. They either take his aggressive, wild sound ...
I’ve been pondering the words “It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?” since I first heard them echo out of the planetary weirdness of Sun Ra’s ‘Space Is the Place’ 20-some odd ...
In anticipation of original Arkestra members Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson performing tonight with Jaribu Shahid at Trinosophes for the third day of the fabulous first Over the Pavement ...
Sun Ra’s statement, musically and spoken, is that this is a primitive world. Its practices, beliefs, religions, are uneducated, unenlightened, savage, destructive, already in the past. That’s why Sun ...
One August day six years ago, John Corbett got a mass e-mail containing some disturbing news: a collection of artifacts related to the charismatic, radical jazz musician Sun Ra was in danger of ...
Today is the centenary of a bandleader whose artistic legacy, within and beyond jazz, is as deep and as strong as that of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, a musician who took a name that bespeaks ...
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