Sun Ra - Wikipedia
Le Sony'r Ra[2] (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
Sun Ra | Biography & Facts | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
Oct 15, 2024 · Sun Ra (born May 22, 1914, Birmingham, Ala., U.S.—died May 30, 1993, Birmingham) was an American jazz composer and keyboard player who led a free jazz big band known for its innovative instrumentation and the theatricality of its performances.
Sun Ra - National Endowment for the Arts
May 30, 1993 · Sun Ra, who enjoyed cloaking his origins and development in mystery, is known to have studied piano early on with Lula Randolph in Washington, DC. His first noted professional job was during 1946-47 as pianist with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Club DeLisa on the South Side of Chicago.
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
Jan 1, 1998 · Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his "Intergalactic Arkestra" of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to …
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Biography — Alabama Music Hall of Fame
Sun Ra was born into our world in 1915 in Birmingham, AL., and since that time the intergalactic traveler, translator of myths, poet, composer and visionary has been a innovator in Jazz. His varied career has spanned most of the history of Jazz from pre …
How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible
Jun 28, 2021 · When the aliens came for Sun Ra, they explained that he had been selected for his “perfect discipline.” Not every human was fit for space travel, but he, with his expert control over his mind...
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - John Szwed
Always riveting, Space Is the Place is the definitive biography of “one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz” (New York Times)–unparalleled for his purposeful outlandishness, a man who exerted a powerful influence over a vast array of artists.
Space Is the Place - Duke University Press
Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra—aka Herman Blount—was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn.
Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - Goodreads
Jan 1, 2001 · Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his "Intergalactic Arkestra" of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to …
Sun Ra
Interview: Irwin Chusid on his Sun Ra work (2014) Rodger Coleman's Complete Sun Ra Sundays (2008–2015) Sun Ra Arkive magazine 2002–2003: issue 1 , issue 2 , issue 3 , issue 4