Fantastico Sun Ra! Questo concerto registrato a Cleveland nel gennaio del 1975, sebbene la qualità del nastro non sia delle più brillanti, si apre all'insegna del funk-rap più immediato, con il basso ...

Describing the music of Sun Ra is always challenging—perhaps even more so when it is documented on a live recording. A case in point is this offering from the Jazz Detective label, a substantial slice ...

I have been listening to the music of Sun Ra since the mid-1970s. His Arkestra performed somewhere in Washington, DC right around that time. I didn’t attend the show (I was broke), but a few friends ...

With costumes inspired by Egyptian symbolism and science fiction, the late jazz innovator's band plays an out-of-this-world set in the NPR Music... Sun Ra was a big-band innovator, a pioneer of ...

Legendary Afrofuturist bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra had an eye on the cosmos. Though he passed away in 1993, the members of his 13-person musical ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra, have since ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hugh Ragin, as brilliant a trumpeter as he is a dedicated educator, greeted me at Englewood’s Colorado Jazz Workshop on a Saturday afternoon in January. He ...