from the album Sleeping Beauty (Expanded)
In the 80s #SunRa told the Arkestra, "If what you do CAN be done by machines, it is time to consider another line of work."
#MarshallAllen joined the already established Arkestra in 1956, and at the age of 102 is still playing far beyond the reach of mechanization 😊
Sun Ra: El visionario del jazz cósmico
Sun Ra, cuyo nombre real era Le Sony'r Ra, fue un compositor, director de banda, pianista y poeta estadounidense de jazz, conocido por su música experimental, su filosofía 'cosmica', su prolífica producción y sus actuaciones teatrales. Nacido en 1914, Sun Ra es considerado uno de los músicos más influyentes del siglo XX. A lo largo de su carrera, Ra lideró T…
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https://akerix.com/on-this-day/05-30-sun-ra-1993
Today in Labor History May 29, 1941: Animators working for Walt Disney begin a five-week strike during the production of Dumbo. My favorite scene is the hallucinogenic Pink Elephants On Parade, performed here by the Sun Ra Arkestra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss0uEo3skcg
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https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/god-is-more-than-love-can-ever-be
from the album God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be [CD, LP, digital]
Universal Sounds Of America, a compilation released on Soul Jazz Records in 1995.
Review by Thom Jurek
Universal Sounds of America is one of the early compilations for Great Britain's Soul Jazz label that made a case for a separate imprint that later became Universal Sound. Artists like Pharoah Sanders, drummer Steve Reid and the Master Brotherhood, Byron Morris & Unity Ensemble, David Durrah, New Life Trio, Marcus Belgrave, and last but not least, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra all on the track listing for this set focus, one way or another, on "space being the place." Numerous cuts here employ the word "space" in their titles and one references it directly...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOzdG_QQMqT8UwgyDmFgopLgHRoNofXT_
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Two days ago it's was the anniversary of Sun Ra's arrival on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama on May 22nd 1914...
In 2 days from now, on TUESDAY MAY 26th, screening of "The Magic City : Birmingham according to Sun Ra" by my friends Guillaume & Pablo @ #ICA #London
https://www.ica.art/films/the-magic-city-birmingham-according-to-sun-ra
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