It’s been almost two decades since Sun Ra, the enigmatic artist who reported Saturn as his birthplace, left our planet and yet – the cosmic jazz pioneer’s Afrofuturist […]
Sun Ra
30-minutes of pure cosmic joy and wonder from Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra. By 1972, Sun Ra had firmly established his Arkestra as a formidable presence on […]
Revisit one of the all-time great late night music programs produced by Hal Willner. For two years starting at the end of the 1980s, the producer and musical […]
When Sun Ra caught wind of flights from Denmark to Egypt, he and the Arkestra embarked on the trip of a lifetime. Sun Ra was a singular artists […]
The live stream benefit concert and Q&A with Arkestra director Marshall Allen premieres Saturday, February 27th at 6pm PST. As part of their “ongoing initiative exploring the intersection […]
A historic Sun Ra ensemble performs at the Philharmonie, Berlin. One of the greatest jazz lineups we’ve ever seen: Archie Shepp, John Gilmore, Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, Philly […]
Filmmaker Robert Mugge profiles Sun Ra, jazz musician, bandleader and self-styled poet and philosopher. “They say that history repeats itself. But history is only his story. You haven’t […]
