Been quite awhile since I did one of these posts! I'm not sure why, but there's a whole bunch of Sun Ra stories appearing. Here's a nice little profile of the great one in The New Yorker. And here's a pretty cool story on Sun...
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You need Sunday School today. Specifically, to listen to Professor Sun Ra lecture in his course he gave in 1971 at UC-Berkeley titled "The Black Man in the Cosmos." The.
I realized that some of you have probably never seen any of the Sun Ra films. Allow me to alleviate this serious problem in your life.
The Ra arrived on Earth 100 years ago today. One of the most inventive and amazing people in the history of American music, Sun Ra managed to balance experimental noise with a band that still swung. In a sense he was on his own trajectory,...