For the members of Burnt Sugar Arkestra, moving on without its late co-founder/leader Greg Tate, a Dayton native, hasn’t been without its difficulties. However, if there was any outfit prepared to ...
The outlandish persona Sun Ra created and maintained for himself over the years may sometimes distract from the adventurous intent of the music he made. Yet it is testament to his vigorous loyalty to ...
It’s a Memorial Day weekend tradition in Philadelphia that happens with such regularity that music fans might be tempted to take it for granted: Marshall Allen has celebrated another birthday. This ...
Sun Ra Arkestra will perform this Sunday (7/9) at Pioneer Works in Red Hook as part of the art space’s Second Sundays program. The show is free and kicks off with a reading by trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah ...
To celebrate the final week of The Guggenheim’s exhibit, Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, Sun Ra Arkestra performed in the museum’s rotunda on Saturday night. Still led by 101-years-young ...
The Sun Ra Arkestra, the musical collective founded in Chicago in the mid-fifties, moved out of the Lower East Side in 1968, and wound up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, on a very ...
The album, New Dawn will be released on Feb. 14 A 100-year-old musician will release his first solo music project on Feb. 14. Marshall Allen, the leader of the legendary group Sun Ra Arkestra, has ...
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Patrons of South Side jazz clubs in the 1950s might have noticed something a bit different about pianist Sun Ra’s big band — slowly at first, then all at once. Their sounds became more far-out, the ...
Sun Ra Arkestra, the pioneering jazz collective founded by the late Sun Ra, have announced their first studio album in over 20 years — since 1999’s Song for the Sun. The LP, whose title has yet to be ...
In the jazz universe, Sun Ra typically travels in an unknown, distant galaxy of his own. He is on the map, but understood and given his proper significance by only a loyal few. Most know his esoteric ...
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