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 ...

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Onstage at New York’s Radio City Music Hall earlier this month, Solange, still touring behind her momentous 2016 album, A Seat at the Table, was flanked by two pyramids; between them was a massive orb ...

Ever since Evidence Records began reissuing his myriad releases on CD, the veil of mystery surrounding eccentric visionary jazz man (and self-proclaimed spaceman) Sun Ra has slowly eroded. In some ...