Probably one of the icon’s most well-known songs, “Enlightenment” is on the simpler side of Sun Ra’s discography. However, sometimes, “simple” doesn’t have to mean “mild”. This song doesn’t have a ...

The album, which will be released April 12, pays tribute to Sun Ra in different ways. For one, the title is a nod to his 1966 instrumental album, “The Magic City,” inspired by his hometown.

Carla Bley is arguably the greatest living jazz composer; John Doran talks to the woman fellow musicians have nicknamed 'Countess Bleysie' and 'Bleythoven' about foundational free jazz sessions, the ...

Sun Ra: electric piano, lightning drum, tympani, squeaky door, strings; Marshall Allen: oboe, alto saxophone, strings; John Gilmore: tenor saxophone, strings; Danny ...

Two nights before this conversation, Sun Ra came to Knoel Scott in a dream. The late jazz composer and cosmic philosopher would have had no trouble finding his lead saxophone player because he was ...

Pathways to Unknown Worlds; Extension Out; Cosmo-Media; View from a Mountain Top; Intrinsic Energies; Of Mythic Worlds. Sun Ra: keyboards; John Gilmore: tenor ...

There was a black moon in December. For some who follow such astronomical events, (and for others who await interplanetary travel via "transmoleculisation"), it can signify the dumping of negative ...

Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of “the tradition” in which the taking of risks is ...

One man who has no negative energy to dump, but knows all about change is Knoel Scott, the saxophonist for one of the oldest and most far-out jazz outfits the world has seen, US band Sun Ra Arkestra.