Randy Porter knows the benefit of music education in developing minds. His day job as a teacher is coming to an end, but he's ...

Kendall Street Company tapped Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools to produce a bold reimagining of Sun Ra’s "Space Is The ...

Irreversible Entanglements, the free jazz collective featuring poet-musician Camae Ayewa, releases "Future Present Past" — ...

Irreversible Entanglements, the free jazz collective featuring poet-musician Camae Ayewa, releases "Future Present Past" — ...

Some documentaries explain their subjects. Others let their aura do the talking. Sun Ra: Do the Impossible, directed by Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Christine Turner, firmly belongs to the latter ...

If you have not seen the Sun Ra Arkestra on one of their Portland sojourns—the city they call their “West Coast home”—it is time, the spaceways are calling. Formed by and around galactic jazz giant ...

“Sun Ra: Do the Impossible” attempts to do the all-but-impossible: tell a linear, earthbound story about a musician who claimed to be from Saturn, delighted in obfuscating details of his biography, ...

Discover the extraordinary life of poet, philosopher and music visionary Sun Ra. Discover the extraordinary life of poet, philosopher and music visionary Sun Ra. With his ever-evolving collective, the ...

Director Christine Turner introduces the subject of “Sun Ra: Do the Impossible” with what might be called tactical piano: The performer is seen playing something that suggests Debussy, then segues ...

From swing to bebop to free jazz, Sun Ra bridged myriad musical styles to form his own avant-garde sound. With his ever-evolving collective, the Sun Ra Arkestra, he stretched the boundaries of jazz ...

PHILADELPHIA — Sun Ra, the Afrofuturist bandleader and intergalactic visionary who based his Arkestra in Philadelphia for decades, is heading to PBS. "Sun Ra: Do the Impossible," the Christine ...

PBS will soon highlight a pioneering musician whose band is still based in a Germantown rowhome. Sun Ra, the late bandleader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, is the subject of an episode of "American Masters" ...