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Review: In Sun Ra tribute, pianist Sullivan Fortner launches the Logan Center into orbit
11 Oct 2025 21:01 GMT
… anywhere but here?
Thank goodness Sun Ra and his music mastered the … that Ra embraced the moniker “Sun Ra” and founded his Arkestra band …
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Piano supernova Sullivan Fortner pays homage to Sun Ra on his former stomping grounds
06 Oct 2025 16:32 GMT
… in 1946, bandleader and composer Sun Ra—then a gigging pianist known …
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Q&A: Director Christine Turner talks harnessing the power of jazz visionary Sun Ra
26 Sep 2025 08:13 GMT
… Turner’s new documentary Sun Ra: Do the Impossible dives … Making a biography of Sun Ra almost contradicts his own project … 10,000 books, and Sun Ra devoured everything—from Russian … such an enormous archive. Sun Ra recorded obsessively—rehearsals, live …
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A Show at the National Gallery Highlights the Role of Photography in the Black Arts Movement
21 Nov 2025 01:04 GMT
… and her ethereal photographs of Sun Ra appearing to materialize out of … stardust in Sun Ra Space II (1978) and Marilyn …
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Marshall Allen leads Sun Ra Arkestra to close out free “Summer Thunder” in Brooklyn
28 Aug 2025 08:33 GMT
… journalism since 1909.
The Sun Ra Arkestra, led by Marshall … sound and space.
The Sun Ra Arkestra channels the philosophic … bandleader, composer, and keyboardist Sun Ra, who used unconventional music … Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra at sunraarkestra.com. …
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What Sun Ra’s Fashion And Music Tells Us About Black Radicalism
06 Aug 2025 22:11 GMT
… Turner intertwined stories centering Sun Ra’s poetry and the … inspiration from Sun Ra. Andre 3000 has explicitly mentioned Sun Ra as … worn-in realities of Sun Ra.
Sun Ra and the Arkestra forged … In “Sun Ra: Do The Impossible,” the importance of Sun Ra as the …
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Sun Ra Arkestra At Miner Auditorium
06 Aug 2025 12:35 GMT
Sun Ra Arkestra
Miner Auditorium
San Francisco, … lights of Miner Auditorium, the Sun Ra Arkestra landed the first of … John Number Two," honoring Sun Ra's longtime tenor man …
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'Sun Ra: Do the Impossible' brings the man and the mystery into view
03 Aug 2025 12:50 GMT
… with current members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, notably the centenarian … Turner, director of 'Sun Ra: Do the Impossible.'
Turner … the strict discipline that Sun Ra exerted with his Arkestra … /
Michael Ochs Archives
Sun Ra and his Arkestra perform with …
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The Sun Ra Arkestra kicks off a series of frill-filled shows at SFJazz
02 Aug 2025 00:59 GMT
… and electricity.
The Sun Ra Arkestra performing at SFJazz … Frankie Solinsky Duryea.
After Sun Ra’s death in 1992 … felt purposeful, pointed towards Sun Ra’s Afrofuturist vision, where … After ending with the Sun Ra classics Enlightenment, Strange Mathematics, …
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New Jersey’s Spring Film Festival Blooms in Late January
20 Nov 2025 01:48 GMT
… special screening of the documentary Sun Ra: Do The Impossible at 7 … composer and poet known as Sun Ra, features Alex Zamalin, a professor … of Arts and Sciences.
“Sun Ra was an amazing artist and … film and performance footage of Sun Ra himself.”
Zamalin isn’t …
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