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Marshall Allen
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Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, clarinet, oboe, kora, and E.V.I. (Electronic Valve Instrument).
Marshall Belford Allen, alto saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and arranger, was born May 25, 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky and started clarinet lessons at age 10. At 18, he enlisted in the Army's 92nd Infantry (renowned as the Buffalo Soldiers), playing clarinet and alto saxophone in the 17th Division Special Service Band. Stationed in Paris during World War II, he played with pianist Art Simmons and saxophonist Don Byas, and he toured and recorded with James Moody during the late '40's. Upon honorable discharge, Mr. Allen enrolled in the Paris Conservatory of Music, studying clarinet with Delacluse. Returning to the States in 1951, Marshall settled in Chicago, where he led his own bands, playing in clubs and dance halls, while writing his own music and arrangements, as he continues to do today.
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra)
By Sun Ra
Label: Strut Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sun Interlude; Love In Outer Space; The Shadow World (Excerpt); The Cosmic Explorer; The Cosmic Explorer; Untitled Piano Solo; Friendly Galaxy No. 2; Why Go To The Moon?/It’s After The End Of The World; Spontaneous Simplicity; Watusi; Percussion Interlude; Interstellar Low Ways; Somewhere Else; They’ll Come Back; Tone Science Interlude; The Satellites Are Spinning; Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space; Calling Planet Earth; Imagination; I’ll Wait For You; We Travel The Spaceways; The World Of Lightning; Blackmyth: The Shadows Took Shape; Strange Worlds; Journey Through The Outer Darkness; Myth Tone Poem (Untitled); Sky; Three Cheers For Ra; Prelude; Theme Of The Stargazers; The Shadow World; The Satellites Are Spinning; Second Stop Is Jupiter; Tone Science; Next Stop Mars; Spontaneous Simplicity; Friendly Galaxy No. 2; ‘Pleasant Twilight; Outer Spaceways Incorporated/You Better Get Ready; Enlightment; Calling Planet Earth; Space Bop (Untitled); Space Ballad (Untitled); Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space/Theme Of The Stargazers/We’ll Wait For You; Somebody Else’s Idea/Walking On The Moon/It’s After The End Of The World; We Travel The Spaceways; Tone Science Interlude; Days Of Wine And Roses; The Satellites Are Spinning.
Live in Philadelphia
By Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons
Label: Otherly Love Records/Ars Nova
Released: 2025
Track listing: Seductive Fantasy; Back to You; We'll Wait For You/Hit That Jive, Jack; The Last Transmission;
Stay Lifted; On Solar Planes; Space Ghost; The Hills; Square The Circle; In The Silence Of The
Infinite; Cosmic Dreamers, Ode to Elegua; The Unknown; Warn Them; Slip Stream; Tachyons
Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints; Rindima.
101-year-old Jazz Icon Marshall Allen Named 'Best Jazz Artist' In The 2025 Unsigned Only Music Awards
The Unsigned Only Music Awards is honored to announce that Marshall Allen, the respected alto saxophonist and leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, has been named the Best Jazz Artist in the 2025 awards. At 101 years old, Allen has been a pioneering force in avant-garde jazz for over six decades, proving that his artistry ...
Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia
by Mark Corroto
In 2025, the Collegium Cardinalium, or College of Cardinals--a body formed in the Middle Ages--convened a conclave in Rome to elect a new Pope for the Catholic Church. Nearly five centuries before the inception of such conclaves, Tibetan Buddhists established their own process of succession by searching for the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, often discovered ...
Sun Ra Arkestra at Tri-C JazzFest 2025
by John Chacona
Sun Ra ArkestraMimi Ohio Theatre Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, OH June 27, 2025 When is a band not a ghost band? It is a question posed by a Cleveland jazz media figure after a performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra on the first full day of the Tri-C JazzFest, and it ...
Sun Ra: Live at the left Bank, Lights on a Satellite
by Stefano Merighi
La seconda metà degli anni Settanta vede l'Arkestra di Sun Ra già in un momento di bilanci. Vent'anni di attività, una parabola virtuosa che congiunge inizi avventurosi, incompresi, a sviluppi ricchissimi di idee, che oltrepassano sia il post-swing degli esordi che il free radicale, per planare in quello stile composito e stratificato, totalmente personale, ...
Fabian Dudek, Dan Weiss, Jasper Hoiby & Mazam
by Maurice Hogue
German alto player Fabian Dudek's new This Every Place is an indication that Dudek's forming his own improvisational language, and his album is graced with the presence of Ingrid Laubrock. A definite must listen. There's a similar path followed by the Portuguese quartet, Mazam, on their new Pilgrimage Vol. 2. Drummer Dan Weiss' latest features a ...
Maestro Marshall Allen Turns 101
by David Brown
I remember well when The Sun Ra Arkestra performed in 2019 to mark bandleader Marshall Allen's 95th birthday. At the time, it was difficult to imagine he'd continue performing into his second century. Yet, six years later, Maestro Allen remains active--touring, recording, and directing the Arkestra with undiminished energy. As Allen turned 101 on June 25, ...
Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra)
by John Sharpe
Discoveries of lost tapes are often trumpeted as legendary or revelatory, but in the case of the greatly expanded Nuits De La Fondation Maeght, the hype feels entirely warranted. The release offers a comprehensive view of a pivotal moment in Sun Ra's career. In 1970, Sun Ra was invited to play at the ...
