He is a miracle of the highest order, a grand eccentric, and true genius of the cosmos. A peerless 20th century composer, a poet, a brilliant pianist, a live performance visionary, one of the greatest ...
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 ...
The enduring legacy of jazz visionary Sun Ra is celebrated by this ensemble made up of Arkestra veterans and a younger generation of exploratory musicians under the direction of saxophonist Knoel ...
Who decided to make Saturday, February 28 Portland’s busiest night for music in 2026? Future local legends Pileup are throwing an album party for their new one Leave The Light On at Leaven Community, ...
“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, ...
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 ...
Our journalism is only possible with support from you, our readers. The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. All this may indeed be true, but any piece of ...
Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan ...
Sun Ra, the Afrofuturist bandleader and intergalactic visionary who based his Arkestra in Philadelphia for decades, is heading to PBS. It will be shown locally on WHYY at 9 p.m. Feb. 20. Sun Ra, who ...
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" ...
From swing to bebop to free jazz, Sun Ra bridged myriad musical styles to create a singular avant-garde sound, and with his ever-evolving collective, the Sun Ra Arkestra, he pushed the boundaries of ...
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