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Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations. And well it should, since Sun Ra has been both apart of and ahead of the jazz tradition during that time. Like Duke Ellington and swing-era pioneer Fletcher Henderson, Sun Ra learned early on to write music in an arranged form that showcased the specific talents of his individual Arkestra members, and he has retained the services of some of these musicians to this day: John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, and Julian Priester for example since they first joined in the 1950's
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.
DC Jazz Fest + Homework Music
by David Brown
The show opens with a celebration of Sonny Rollins on his 95th birthday, featuring a classic 1954 recording with Thelonious Monk. With students across Philadelphia settling into a new school year, the next set offers a “homework-inspired" segment features selection from Dizzy Gillespie, Johnnie Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Matthew Muñeses, Marian McPartland, and Thelonious Monk. Over Labor ...
Deconstructing Free Jazz
by Robert J. Lewis
In the continuously evolving history of artistic expression, certain movements emerge that challenge the very foundations of our aesthetic sensibilities. In the early and mid-20th century, Expressionism and free jazz were two audacious musics that not only broke all the rules but broke the spirit of many well-intentioned listeners. If the terms are not ...
Paolo Angeli: Lema
by Ian Patterson
Paolo Angeli has charted a singular course since Dove Dormono Gli Autobus (Erosha, 1995) introduced the Sardinian guitarist to the wider world. Back then, he juggled Sardinian guitar, classical guitar, electric bass and percussion. He soon transitioned to prepared guitar--a hybrid of guitar, cello and harp. Besides this triple threat, a typical Angeli guitar has more ...
Out from the Vaults
by Patrick Burnette
The most recent Record Store Day episode is barely in the rear-view, but the boys decide to take on four more vault finds dug up by jazz detective Zev Feldman. Which ones are keepers and which ones get the dreaded label “redundant" and an invite off the island (or, at least, out of the record collection)? ...
Paolo Angeli: Su "Lema" E Molto Altro
by Libero Farnè
Non avevo intervistato Paolo Angeli dal febbraio 2007, quando il musicista sardo aveva già abbandonato la scena bolognese dove aveva maturato esperienze importanti e formative, di sicuro propedeutiche al raggiungimento della sua pienezza artistica. Da allora Angeli ha affrontato tante situazioni e collaborazioni musicali diverse, vedendo crescere la sua fama internazionale, grazie anche alla ...
Jimmy Lyons: Live From Studio Rivbea (Jimmy Lyons)
by John Sharpe
Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons was underappreciated even at the height of his powers, but to those with ears attuned to the radical innovations of the loft jazz era, he was a galvanizing presence. That his legacy remains under-lit is due in part to his long-standing tenure in Cecil Taylor's incandescent orbit. Lyons was more than a ...
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 ...
