few have been quite as dedicated to their art as Sun Ra. Born Herman Poole Blount in 1914 – though he claimed he was in fact from Saturn – and backed by his Arkestra collective, he released ...
Sun Ra: Space. Music. Mythby Tam Fiofori is an expansive treasure-trove dealing with the avant-garde musician’s many emanations: From Chicago to New York; Art and Poetic Dimensions of Sun Ra’s ...
Sun Ra was many things. As a pianist, composer, inventor, bandleader, philosopher and a revolutionary, Ra’s creation knew no bounds; even still, three decades after his ascent to the stars ...
The Sun Ra Arkestra is the name most commonly used for the current incarnation of Sun Ra's original band, now led by Marshall Allen. Since 1954, Marshall Allen has been the ferocious core of the ...
Bill Sebastian built his first "visual synthesizer" in the 1970s and performed it onstage with the pioneering jazz musician Sun Ra. Now, with the advancement of virtual reality, he plays his ...
Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s majority stake in Chinese hypermarket chain Sun Art Retail Group Ltd. is attracting preliminary interest from private equity firms, according to people familiar with ...