Sun Ra

July 30, 1988 – Sun Ra and his Arkestra will be on stage at “Live Under The Sky Festival” in Tokyo

Sun Ra’s ‘Mayan Temples’ is an album recorded on July 24 & 25, 1990 and released the same year by Black Saint. Track Listing : 1.Dance Of The Language Barrier (Sun Ra) – 03:58 . 2.Bygone (Sun Ra) – 05:15 . 3.Disciple No. 1 (Sun Ra) – 04:57 . 4.Alone Together (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) […]

July 11, 2014 – Sun Ra Centennial Dream Arkestra, led by Marshall Allen, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the “grand master” at “Estival Jazz” at Lugano, Switzerland

June 17, 1982 – Sun Ra and his Arkestra are at Jazz Festival di Kongsberg in Norway

May 31, 1990 – Sun Ra and the Arkestra take part in the “First Moscow International Jazz Festival” held at State Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia

This day (May 30, 1993), in Birmingham, Alabama, died Herman Poole Blount a.k.a Sun Ra, a jazz composer, bandleader and a cosmic philosopher.

‘The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One’ is an album recorded on April 20, 1965 with his Solar Arkestra and released the same year by Esp Disk.. Track Listing : 1.Heliocentric (Sun Ra) – 04:00 . 2.Outer Nothingness (Sun Ra) – 07:40 . 3.Other Worlds (Sun Ra) – 04:18 . 4.The Cosmos (Sun Ra) […]

Sun Ra’s ‘Jazz in Silhouette’ is an album recorded on March 6, 1959 with his Arkestra and released in May 1959 by Saturn. Track Listing : 1.Enlightenment (Hobart Dotson, Sun Ra) – 05:02 . 2.Saturn (Sun Ra) – 03:37 . 3.Velvet (Sun Ra) – 03:18 . 4.Ancient Aiethopia (Sun Ra) – 09:04 . 5.Hours After […]

MC5’s ‘Kick Out the Jams’ is their debut (and live) album recorded live at Detroit’s Grande Ballroom and released in February 1969 by Elektra Records. Track Listing : 1.Ramblin’ Rose (Fred Burch, Marijohn Wilkin) – 04:15 . 2.Kick Out The Jams (Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Fred “Sonic” Smith, Michael Davis, Dennis Thompson) – 02:52 . […]

Sun Ra Arkestra’s ‘Sunrise in Different Dimensions’ is a live album recorded on February 24, 1980 at the Gasthof Morhen in Willisau, Switzerland and released in 1981 by Hathut. Track Listing : 1.Light From A Hidden Sun (Sun Ra) – 03:52 . 2.Pin-Points Of Spiral Prisms (Sun Ra) – 04:41 . 3.Silhouettes Of The Shadow […]

‘Horizon’ by Sun Ra and his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra is an album recorded on December 17, 1971 and documenting their first visit to Egypt. Track Listing : 1.Theme Of The Star Gazers (Sun Ra) – 01:21 . 2.Discipline #2 (Sun Ra) – 05:28 . 3.The Shadow World (Sun Ra) – 16:42 . 4.Enlightenment (Sun Ra) – […]

October 29, 1983 – the Sun Ra All Stars – that is Don Cherry (tp,voc), Lester Bowie (tp), Marshall Allen (as,perc), John Gilmore (ts,fl), Archie Shepp (ts,voc), Sun Ra (kb), Richard Davis (b), Clifford Jarvis (d), Philly Joe Jones (d) and Famoudou Don Moye (perc) – participate in Jazztage at Philharmonie in Berlin, Germany

September 2, 1981 – Sun Ra and his Arkestra perform at the Chicago Jazz Fest