Embark on a cosmic odyssey with Sun Ra and his Arkestra as they unveil At the Showcase Live in Chicago 1976-1977, a celestial offering dripping with mystique and intrigue. This transcendent collection ...
It’s no wonder then that an attentive crowd of Ra adherents and cosmic music lovers would show up to the Hollywood Theatre on ...
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 ...
“The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here.” So spoke the composer and pianist Sun Ra, who famously claimed to have traveled from Saturn to bring a message of peace and love to Earth.
February is Black History Month, and each week all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is joining us to talk about a different trailblazer of Black music. These mavericks took musical risks ...
Red Hot, a non-profit organization “dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture,” has announced the third volume of its Red Hot + Ra series of albums paying tribute to free jazz cosmonaut Sun Ra, ...
Without the jazz musician, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra, the music industry would look and sound somewhat different. Countless mainstream artists have been inspired by his boundlessness and his ability ...
Meshell Ndegeocello worked on a new album inspired by Sun Ra and his 1966 album The Magic City. The new release, Red Hot & Ra : The Magic City, is out April 12 via Red Hot Organization. Ndegeocello ...
Yo La Tengo resumed its annual Hanukkah run at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Dec. 31 and returned last night, Jan. 1, 2025, to cap the festival of lights with a swath of guests that assisted the host ...
Meshell Ndegeocello is spearheading the next installment in the ongoing Sun Ra tribute series, Red Hot + Ra, with the LP Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City, out April 12. The LP isn’t a traditional “tribute ...
At SFJazz on Thursday night, 15 musicians and one dancer slowly filed onstage wearing uniforms that sparkled like the Milky Way: bejeweled robes, pharaoh headdresses, wraparound neon sunglasses. As ...
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 ...
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