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James Stewart

Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen: Living Sky

by Chris May
October 10, 2022

When Sun Ra aficionado and Omni Sound Records founder Ahmet Ulug reached out to Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen to commission a new album from the band, he gave Allen a tight brief. Ulug said that he wanted something: “Spiritual and hypnotic... down tempo, melodic and grooving... Music that is accessible and healing."

Sun Ra Arkestra: Swirling

by Ian Patterson
January 2, 2021

Though Sun Ra departed Earth in 1993, his music has continued to thrive, first under the stewardship of John Gilmore and, since 1995, by the remarkable Marshall Allen who turned 96 in May 2020. A live Arkestra show still contains many of the elements that have been present since the 1950s and '60s-- color, pageantry and ...

Seductive Fantasy

By Sun Ra Arkestra

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Seductive Fantasy.

Swirling

By Marshall Allen

Label: Strut Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Satellites Are Spinning / Lights On A Satellite; Seductive Fantasy; Swirling; Angels And Demons At Play; Sea Of Darkness / Darkness; Rocket No. 9; Astro Black; Infinity / I’ll Wait For You; Sunology; Door Of The Cosmos / Say; Queer Notions (2xLP bonus track).

Sun Ra Arkestra: Seductive Fantasy

by Ian Patterson
July 8, 2020

It seems entirely fitting that “Seductive Fantasy," the single from the Sun Ra Arkestra's first studio album in twenty years, should be a reworking of an old song, one that dates back over forty years to On Jupiter (El Saturn, 1979). With Sun Ra it was ever thus; old is new and new is old. The ...

Vision Festival 2018

by John Sharpe
June 5, 2018

23rd Annual Vision Festival Roulette New York, NY May 23-28, 2018 Introduction The Vision Festival somewhat surprisingly but reassuringly stands proud as the longest-lived annually produced jazz festival in New York. While the central plank remains what the Festival terms avant jazz, it's interspersed with poetry, dance, art, and ...

Under The Bridge

By Philadelphia Heritage Art Ensemble

Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2001
Track listing: Surge, Under The Bridge, Inner Moods, Cool Breeze, Eudora's Waltz, No Room For Squares, The Morning After, Bossa For Baby.