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</ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_devotion_to_music_(late_1930s)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_devotion_to_music_(late_1930s)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>New devotion to music (late 1930s)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_devotion_to_music_(late_1930s)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Draft_and_wartime_experiences" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Draft_and_wartime_experiences"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Draft and wartime experiences</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Draft_and_wartime_experiences-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chicago_years_(1945–1961)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chicago_years_(1945–1961)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Chicago years (1945–1961)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chicago_years_(1945–1961)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_York_years_(1961–1968)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_York_years_(1961–1968)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>New York years (1961–1968)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_York_years_(1961–1968)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Philadelphia_years_(1968)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Philadelphia_years_(1968)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Philadelphia years (1968)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philadelphia_years_(1968)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-California_and_world_tours_(1968–1993)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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href="#Afrofuturism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>Afrofuturism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Afrofuturism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Influence_and_legacy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Influence_and_legacy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Influence and legacy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Influence_and_legacy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Discography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Filmography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Filmography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Filmography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Filmography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="سان را – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سان را" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8A%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B0" title="Сън Ра – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сън Ра" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="سان را – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سان را" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7" title="صن را – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="صن را" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9" title="サン・ラ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サン・ラ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Sun Ra" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" title="Sun Ra – Sardinian" lang="sc" 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A., see <a href="/wiki/Sun_Rise_Above" title="Sun Rise Above">Sun Rise Above</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Herman Poole Blount</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Also known as</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Le Sony'r Ra (<a href="/wiki/Legal_name" title="Legal name">legal name</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1914-05-22</span>)</span>May 22, 1914<br /><a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 30, 1993<span style="display:none">(1993-05-30)</span> (aged 79)<br />Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output 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<li>poet</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Keyboards</li> <li>vocals</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1934–1993</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Saturn_Records" title="El Saturn Records">El Saturn</a></li> <li>Thoth Intergalactic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impulse!_Records" title="Impulse! Records">Impulse!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MPS_Records" title="MPS Records">MPS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ESP-Disk" title="ESP-Disk">ESP-Disk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Saint/Soul_Note" title="Black Saint/Soul Note">Black Saint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%26M_Records" title="A&M Records">A&M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leo_Records" title="Leo Records">Leo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rounder_Records" title="Rounder Records">Rounder</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Le Sony'r Ra</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born <b>Herman Poole Blount</b>, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as <b>Sun Ra</b>, was an American <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> composer, bandleader, piano and <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizer</a> player, and <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a> known for his <a href="/wiki/Experimental_music" title="Experimental music">experimental music</a>, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led The Arkestra, an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. </p><p>Born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a>, Blount became involved in the <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Chicago" title="Music of Chicago">Chicago jazz</a> scene during the late <a href="/wiki/1940s" title="1940s">1940s</a>. He soon abandoned his birth name, taking the name Le Sony'r Ra, shortened to Sun Ra (after <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a>, the Egyptian god of the Sun). Claiming to be an alien from <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a> on a mission to preach peace, he developed a mythical persona and an idiosyncratic credo that made him a pioneer of <a href="/wiki/Afrofuturism" title="Afrofuturism">Afrofuturism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Afrofuturism:_Why_black_science_fiction_'can't_be_ignored'_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Afrofuturism:_Why_black_science_fiction_'can't_be_ignored'-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout his life he denied ties to his prior identity saying, "Any name that I use other than Ra is a pseudonym."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His widely eclectic and <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> music echoed the entire history of jazz, from <a href="/wiki/Ragtime" title="Ragtime">ragtime</a> and early New Orleans hot jazz, to <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing music</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Free_jazz" title="Free jazz">free jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">fusion</a>. His compositions ranged from keyboard solos to works for <a href="/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big bands</a> of over 30 musicians, along with electronic excursions, songs, chants, percussion pieces, and anthems. </p><p>From the mid-1950s until his death, Ra led the musical collective The Arkestra, which featured artists such as <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musician)" title="John Gilmore (musician)">John Gilmore</a> and <a href="/wiki/June_Tyson" title="June Tyson">June Tyson</a> throughout its various iterations. Its performances often included dancers and musicians dressed in elaborate, <a href="/wiki/Future#Futures_studies" title="Future">futuristic</a> costumes inspired by <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">ancient Egyptian</a> attire and the <a href="/wiki/Space_Age" title="Space Age">Space Age</a>. Following Ra's retirement in 1992 due to illness, the band remained active as <a href="/wiki/The_Sun_Ra_Arkestra" title="The Sun Ra Arkestra">The Sun Ra Arkestra</a>, and, as of 2024, continues performing under the leadership of veteran Ra sideman Marshall Allen.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though his mainstream success was limited, Ra was a prolific recording artist and frequent live performer, and remained influential throughout his life for his music and persona.<sup id="cite_ref-Yanow_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yanow-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is now widely considered an innovator; among his distinctions are his pioneering work in <a href="/wiki/Free_improvisation" title="Free improvisation">free improvisation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modal_jazz" title="Modal jazz">modal jazz</a> and his early use of <a href="/wiki/Electronic_keyboard" title="Electronic keyboard">electronic keyboards</a> and <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yanow_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yanow-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over his career, he recorded dozens of singles and over 100 full-length albums, comprising well over 1,000 songs, making him one of the most prolific recording artists of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born Herman Blount on May 22, 1914, in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, as discovered by his biographer, <a href="/wiki/John_F._Szwed" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Szwed">John F. Szwed</a>, and published in his 1998 book, <i>Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was named after the popular <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> stage magician <a href="/wiki/Black_Herman" title="Black Herman">Black Herman</a>, who had deeply impressed his mother.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was nicknamed "Sonny" from his childhood, had an older sister and half-brother, and was doted upon by his mother and grandmother. </p><p>For decades, very little was known about Sun Ra's early life, and he contributed to its mystique. As a self-invented person, he routinely gave evasive, contradictory or seemingly nonsensical answers to personal questions, and denied his birth name.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He speculated, only half in jest, that he was distantly related to Elijah Poole, later known as <a href="/wiki/Elijah_Muhammad" title="Elijah Muhammad">Elijah Muhammad</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His birthday for years remained unknown, as his claims ranged from 1910 to 1918. Only a few years before his death, the date of Sun Ra's birth was still a mystery. Jim Macnie's notes for <i>Blue Delight</i> (1989) said that Sun Ra was believed to be about 75 years old. This turned out to be correct; Szwed was able to uncover a wealth of information about his early life, and confirmed a birth date of May 22, 1914. </p><p>As a child, Blount was a skilled pianist. By the age of 11 or 12, he was composing<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Sight_reading" class="mw-redirect" title="Sight reading">sight reading</a> music. Birmingham was an important stop for touring musicians and he saw prominent musicians such as <a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson" title="Fletcher Henderson">Fletcher Henderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fats_Waller" title="Fats Waller">Fats Waller</a>, and other less well known. Sun Ra once said, "The world let down a lot of good musicians".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his teenage years, Blount demonstrated prodigious musical talent: many times, according to acquaintances, he went to <a href="/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big band</a> performances and then produced full transcriptions of the bands' songs from memory. By his mid-teens, Blount was performing semi-professionally as a solo pianist, or as a member of various <i>ad hoc</i> jazz and <a href="/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a> groups. He attended Birmingham's segregated Industrial High School (now known as <a href="/wiki/A._H._Parker_High_School" title="A. H. Parker High School">Parker High School</a>), where he studied under music teacher John T. "Fess" Whatley, a demanding disciplinarian who was widely respected and whose classes produced many professional musicians. </p><p>Though deeply religious, his family was not formally associated with any Christian church or sect. Blount had few or no close friends in high school but was remembered as kind-natured and quiet, an <a href="/wiki/Honors_student" title="Honors student">honor roll</a> student, and a voracious reader. He took advantage of the Black <a href="/wiki/Prince_Hall_Freemasonry" title="Prince Hall Freemasonry">Masonic Lodge</a> as one of the few places in Birmingham where African Americans had unlimited access to books. Its collection on <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Freemasonry</a> and other esoteric concepts made a strong impression on him.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By his teens, Blount suffered from <a href="/wiki/Cryptorchidism" title="Cryptorchidism">cryptorchidism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It left him with a nearly constant discomfort that sometimes flared into severe pain.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Szwed suggests that Blount felt shame about it and the condition contributed to his isolation.<sup id="cite_ref-szwed_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-szwed-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_professional_career_and_college">Early professional career and college</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early professional career and college"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1934, Blount was offered his first full-time musical job by <a href="/wiki/Ethel_Ernestine_Harper" title="Ethel Ernestine Harper">Ethel Harper</a>, his biology teacher from the high school, who had organized a band to pursue a career as a singer. Blount joined a musicians' <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" title="Trade union">trade union</a> and toured with Harper's group through the US <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Midwest">Midwest</a>. When Harper left the group mid-tour to move to New York (she later was a member of the modestly successful singing group the Ginger Snaps), Blount took over leadership of the group, renaming it the Sonny Blount Orchestra. They continued touring for several months before dissolving as unprofitable. Though the first edition of the Sonny Blount Orchestra was not financially successful, they earned positive notice from fans and other musicians. Blount afterward found steady employment as a musician in Birmingham. </p><p>Birmingham clubs often featured exotic trappings, such as vivid lighting and murals with tropical or oasis scenes. Some believe these influenced the elements Sun Ra incorporated in his later stage shows. Playing for the big bands gave black musicians a sense of pride and togetherness, and they were highly regarded in the black community. They were expected to be disciplined and presentable, and in the segregated South, black musicians had wide acceptance in white society. They often played for elite white society audiences (though they were typically forbidden from associating with the audience). </p><p>In 1936, Whatley's intercession led to Blount's being awarded a scholarship at <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Agricultural_and_Mechanical_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University">Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University</a>. He was a music education major, studying composition, orchestration, and music theory. He dropped out after a year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trip_to_Saturn">Trip to Saturn</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Trip to Saturn"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blount left college because, he claimed, he had a visionary experience as a college student that had a major, long-term influence on him. In 1936 or 1937, in the midst of deep religious concentration, Sun Ra claimed that a bright light appeared around him, and, as he later said: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>My whole body changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up... I wasn't in human form... I landed on a planet that I identified as <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>... they <a href="/wiki/Apport_(paranormal)" title="Apport (paranormal)">teleported</a> me and I was down on [a] stage with them. They wanted to talk with me. They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. They told me to stop [attending college] because there was going to be great trouble in schools... the world was going into complete chaos... I would speak [through music], and the world would listen. That's what they told me.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Blount claimed that this experience occurred in 1936 or 1937. According to Szwed, the musician's closest associates cannot date the story any earlier than 1952. (Blount also said that the incident happened when he was living in Chicago, where he did not settle until the late 1940s). Sun Ra discussed the vision, with no substantive variation, to the end of his life. His trip to Saturn allegedly occurred a full decade before <a href="/wiki/Flying_saucer" title="Flying saucer">flying saucers</a> entered public consciousness with the 1947 encounter of <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold" title="Kenneth Arnold">Kenneth Arnold</a>. It was earlier than other public accounts: about 15 years before <a href="/wiki/George_Adamski" title="George Adamski">George Adamski</a> wrote about contact with benevolent beings; and almost 20 years before the 1961 case of <a href="/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Barney and Betty Hill">Barney and Betty Hill</a>, who recounted sinister <a href="/wiki/UFO_abduction" class="mw-redirect" title="UFO abduction">UFO abductions</a>. Szwed says that, "even if this story is <a href="/wiki/Fictional_revisionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional revisionism">revisionist</a> autobiography... Sonny was pulling together several strains of his life. He was both prophesizing his future and explaining his past with a single act of personal mythology."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_devotion_to_music_(late_1930s)"><span id="New_devotion_to_music_.28late_1930s.29"></span>New devotion to music (late 1930s)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: New devotion to music (late 1930s)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After leaving college, Blount became known as the most singularly devoted musician in Birmingham. He rarely slept, citing <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon</a> as fellow highly productive cat-nappers. He transformed the first floor of his family's home into a conservatory-workshop, where he wrote songs, transcribed recordings, rehearsed with the many musicians who drifted in and out, and discussed Biblical and esoteric concepts with whoever was interested.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blount became a regular at Birmingham's Forbes Piano Company, a white-owned company. Blount visited the Forbes building almost daily to play music, swap ideas with staff and customers, or copy sheet music into his notebooks.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He formed a new band, and like his old teacher Whatley, insisted on rigorous daily rehearsals. The new Sonny Blount Orchestra earned a reputation as an impressive, disciplined band that could play in a wide variety of styles with equal skill.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Draft_and_wartime_experiences">Draft and wartime experiences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Draft and wartime experiences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1942, Blount received a <a href="/wiki/Selective_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Selective service">selective service</a> notification that he had been <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">drafted</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Military_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Military of the United States">Military of the United States</a>. He quickly declared himself a <a href="/wiki/Conscientious_objector" title="Conscientious objector">conscientious objector</a>, citing religious objections to war and killing, his financial support of his great-aunt Ida, and his chronic hernia. The local draft board rejected his claim. In an appeal to the national draft board, Blount wrote that the lack of black men on the draft appeal board "smacks of <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Hitlerism</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sonny's refusal to join the military deeply embarrassed his family, and many relatives ostracized him. He was eventually approved for alternate service at <a href="/wiki/Civilian_Public_Service" title="Civilian Public Service">Civilian Public Service</a> camp in <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, but he did not appear at the camp as required on December 8, 1942. Shortly after, he was arrested in Alabama. </p><p>In court, Blount said that alternate service was unacceptable; he debated the judge on points of law and Biblical interpretation. The judge ruled that Blount was violating the law and was at risk for being drafted into the U.S. military. Blount responded that if inducted, he would use military weapons and training to kill the first high-ranking military officer possible. The judge sentenced Blount to jail (pending draft board and CPS rulings), and then said, "I've never seen a nigger like you before." Blount replied, "No, and you never will again."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 1943, Blount wrote to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">United States Marshals Service</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Walker_County,_Alabama" title="Walker County, Alabama">Walker County, Alabama</a> jail in <a href="/wiki/Jasper,_Alabama" title="Jasper, Alabama">Jasper</a>. He said he was facing a <a href="/wiki/Nervous_breakdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Nervous breakdown">nervous breakdown</a> from the stress of imprisonment, that he was suicidal, and that he was in constant fear of sexual assault. When his conscientious objector status was reaffirmed in February 1943, he was escorted to Pennsylvania. He did forestry work as assigned during the day and was allowed to play piano at night. Psychiatrists there described him as "a <a href="/wiki/Psychopathic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychopathic">psychopathic</a> personality [and] sexually perverted," but also as "a well-educated colored <a href="/wiki/Intellectual" title="Intellectual">intellectual</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1943, the draft board reclassified Blount as <a href="/wiki/4F_(military_conscription)" class="mw-redirect" title="4F (military conscription)">4-F</a> because of his hernia, and he returned to Birmingham, embittered and angered. He formed a new band and soon was playing professionally. After his beloved great-aunt Ida died in 1945, Blount felt no reason to stay in Birmingham. He dissolved the band, and moved to Chicago—part of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Second Great Migration (African American)">Second Great Migration</a>, southern African Americans who moved north during and after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chicago_years_(1945–1961)"><span id="Chicago_years_.281945.E2.80.931961.29"></span>Chicago years (1945–1961)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Chicago years (1945–1961)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Chicago, Blount quickly found work, notably with blues singer <a href="/wiki/Wynonie_Harris" title="Wynonie Harris">Wynonie Harris</a>, with whom he made his recording debut on two 1946 singles, <i>Dig This Boogie</i>/<i>Lightning Struck the Poorhouse</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>My Baby's Barrelhouse</i>/<i>Drinking By Myself</i>. <i>Dig This Boogie</i> was also Blount's first recorded piano solo. He performed with the locally successful <a href="/wiki/Lil_Green" title="Lil Green">Lil Green</a> band and played bump-and-grind music for months in <a href="/wiki/Calumet_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Calumet City">Calumet City</a> <a href="/wiki/Strip_club" title="Strip club">strip clubs</a>. </p><p>In August 1946, Blount earned a lengthy engagement at the <a href="/wiki/Club_DeLisa" title="Club DeLisa">Club DeLisa</a> under bandleader and composer <a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson" title="Fletcher Henderson">Fletcher Henderson</a>. Blount had long admired Henderson, but Henderson's fortunes had declined (his band was now made of up middling musicians rather than the stars of earlier years) in large part because of his instability, due to Henderson's long-term injuries from a car accident. Henderson hired Blount as pianist and arranger, replacing <a href="/wiki/Marl_Young" title="Marl Young">Marl Young</a>. Blount's arrangements initially showed a degree of <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a> influence, but the band members resisted the new music, despite Henderson's encouragement. </p><p>In 1948, Blount performed briefly in a trio with saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a> and violinist <a href="/wiki/Stuff_Smith" title="Stuff Smith">Stuff Smith</a>, both preeminent musicians. There are no known recordings of this trio, but home recordings of two different Blount-Smith duets from 1953 appear on <i><a href="/wiki/Sound_Sun_Pleasure!!" title="Sound Sun Pleasure!!">Sound Sun Pleasure!!</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Deep_Purple_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Deep Purple (Sun Ra album)">Deep Purple</a></i>, and one of Sun Ra's final recordings in 1992 was a rare sideman appearance on violinist <a href="/wiki/Billy_Bang" title="Billy Bang">Billy Bang</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_Tribute_to_Stuff_Smith" title="A Tribute to Stuff Smith">Tribute to Stuff Smith</a></i>. </p><p>In addition to enabling professional advancement, what he encountered in Chicago changed Blount's personal outlook. The city was a center of African-American <a href="/wiki/Political_activism" class="mw-redirect" title="Political activism">political activism</a> and fringe movements, with <a href="/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Black Muslims</a>, <a href="/wiki/Black_Hebrew_Israelites" title="Black Hebrew Israelites">Black Hebrews</a>, and others <a href="/wiki/Proselytizing" class="mw-redirect" title="Proselytizing">proselytizing</a>, debating, and printing leaflets or books. Blount absorbed it all and was fascinated with the city's many <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">ancient Egyptian</a>-styled buildings and monuments. He read books such as <a href="/wiki/George_G.M._James" class="mw-redirect" title="George G.M. James">George G.M. James</a>'s <i>Stolen Legacy</i> (which argued that classical <a href="/wiki/Greek_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek philosophy">Greek philosophy</a> had its roots in ancient Egypt). Blount concluded that the accomplishments and history of Africans had been systematically suppressed and denied by <a href="/wiki/European_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="European culture">European cultures</a>. </p><p>By 1952, Blount was leading the Space Trio with drummer Tommy "Bugs" Hunter and saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Pat_Patrick_(musician)" title="Pat Patrick (musician)">Pat Patrick</a>, two of the most accomplished musicians he had known. They performed regularly, and Sun Ra began writing more advanced songs.<sup id="cite_ref-Patrick_Grove_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Patrick_Grove-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 20, 1952, Blount legally changed his name to Le Sony'r Ra. Sun Ra claimed<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to have always been uncomfortable with his birth name of Blount. He considered it a <a href="/wiki/Slave_name" title="Slave name">slave name</a>, from a family that was not his. David Martinelli suggested that his change was similar to "<a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a>... [dropping] their slave names in the process of attaining a new self-awareness and self-esteem".<sup id="cite_ref-martinelli_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-martinelli-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Patrick left the group to move to Florida with his new wife. His friend <a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musician)" title="John Gilmore (musician)">John Gilmore</a> (tenor sax) joined the group, and <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a> (alto sax) soon followed. Patrick was in and out of the group until the end of his life, but Allen and Gilmore were the two most devoted members of the Arkestra. In fact, Gilmore is often criticized for staying with Sun Ra for over forty years when he could have been a strong leader in his own right.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saxophonist <a href="/wiki/James_Spaulding" title="James Spaulding">James Spaulding</a> and trombonist <a href="/wiki/Julian_Priester" title="Julian Priester">Julian Priester</a> also recorded with Sun Ra in Chicago, and both went on to careers of their own. The Chicago tenor <a href="/wiki/Von_Freeman" title="Von Freeman">Von Freeman</a> also did a short stint with the band of the early 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Chicago, Sun Ra met <a href="/wiki/Alton_Abraham" title="Alton Abraham">Alton Abraham</a>, a precociously intelligent teenager and something of a kindred spirit. He became the Arkestra's biggest booster and one of Sun Ra's closest friends. Both men felt like outsiders and shared an interest in <a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">esoterica</a>. Abraham's strengths balanced Ra's shortcomings: though he was a disciplined bandleader, Sun Ra was somewhat introverted and lacked business sense (a trait that haunted his entire career). Abraham was outgoing, well-connected, and practical. Though still a teenager, Abraham eventually became Sun Ra's <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> business manager: he booked performances, suggested musicians for the Arkestra, and introduced several popular songs into the group's repertoire. Ra, Abraham and others formed a sort of <a href="/wiki/Book_discussion_club" title="Book discussion club">book club</a> to trade ideas and discuss the offbeat topics that so intrigued them. This group printed a number of pamphlets and broadsides explaining their conclusions and ideas. Some of these were collected by critic <a href="/wiki/John_Corbett_(writer)" title="John Corbett (writer)">John Corbett</a> and Anthony Elms as <i>The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's <a href="/wiki/Polemic" title="Polemic">Polemical</a> Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets</i> (2006). </p><p>In the mid-1950s, Sun Ra and Abraham formed an <a href="/wiki/Independent_record_label" title="Independent record label">independent record label</a> that was generally known as <a href="/wiki/El_Saturn_Records" title="El Saturn Records">El Saturn Records</a>. (It had several name variations.) Initially focused on 45 rpm singles by Sun Ra and artists related to him, Saturn Records issued two full-length albums during the 1950s: <i><a href="/wiki/Super-Sonic_Jazz" title="Super-Sonic Jazz">Super-Sonic Jazz</a></i> (1957) and <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_In_Silhouette" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazz In Silhouette">Jazz In Silhouette</a></i> (1959). Producer <a href="/wiki/Tom_Wilson_(producer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Wilson (producer)">Tom Wilson</a> was the first to release a Sun Ra album, through his independent label <a href="/wiki/Transition_Records" title="Transition Records">Transition Records</a> in 1957, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_by_Sun_Ra" title="Jazz by Sun Ra">Jazz by Sun Ra</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-earthlies_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-earthlies-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During this era, Sun Ra recorded the first of dozens of singles as a band-for-hire backing a range of <a href="/wiki/Doo_wop" class="mw-redirect" title="Doo wop">doo wop</a> and <a href="/wiki/R%26B" class="mw-redirect" title="R&B">R&B</a> singers; several dozen of these were reissued in a two-CD set, <i>The Singles</i>, by Evidence Records. </p><p>In the late 1950s, Sun Ra and his band began to wear outlandish, Egyptian-styled or <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>-themed costumes and <a href="/wiki/Headdress" class="mw-redirect" title="Headdress">headdresses</a>. These costumes had multiple purposes: they expressed Sun Ra's fascination with ancient Egypt and the <a href="/wiki/Space_age" class="mw-redirect" title="Space age">space age</a>, they provided a recognizable uniform for the Arkestra, they provided a new identity for the band onstage, and comic relief. (Sun Ra thought <i><a href="/wiki/Avant_garde" class="mw-redirect" title="Avant garde">avant garde</a></i> musicians typically took themselves far too seriously.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_York_years_(1961–1968)"><span id="New_York_years_.281961.E2.80.931968.29"></span>New York years (1961–1968)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: New York years (1961–1968)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun Ra and the Arkestra moved to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> in the fall of 1961. To save money, Sun Ra and his band members lived communally. This enabled Sun Ra to request rehearsals spontaneously and at any time, which was his established habit. It was during this time in New York that Sun Ra recorded the album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Futuristic_Sounds_of_Sun_Ra" title="The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra">The Futuristic Sound of Sun Ra.</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-:0_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 1966, the Arkestra secured a regular Monday night gig at <a href="/wiki/Slug%27s_Saloon" class="mw-redirect" title="Slug's Saloon">Slug's Saloon</a>. This was a breakthrough to new audiences and recognition. Sun Ra's popularity reached an early peak during this period, as the <a href="/wiki/Beat_generation" class="mw-redirect" title="Beat generation">beat generation</a> and early followers of <a href="/wiki/Psychedelia" title="Psychedelia">psychedelia</a> embraced him. Regularly for the next year and a half (and intermittently for another half-decade afterwards), Sun Ra and company performed at Slug's for audiences that eventually came to include music critics and leading jazz musicians. Opinions of Sun Ra's music were divided (and hecklers were not uncommon). </p><p>High praise, however, came from two of the architects of bebop. Trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a> offered encouragement, once stating, "Keep it up, Sonny, they tried to do the same shit to me,"<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and pianist <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a> chided someone who said Sun Ra was "too far out" by responding: "Yeah, but it <i>swings</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in 1966, Sun Ra, with members of the Arkestra and Al Kooper's Blues Project, recorded the album <i>Batman and Robin</i> under the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a>, The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale. The album consisted primarily of instrumental variations on the <a href="/wiki/Batman_Theme" title="Batman Theme">Batman Theme</a> and public domain classical music, with an uncredited female vocalist singing the "Robin Theme."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite their planned management of money, the costs of New York eventually became too high and motivated the group to move to Philadelphia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philadelphia_years_(1968)"><span id="Philadelphia_years_.281968.29"></span>Philadelphia years (1968)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Philadelphia years (1968)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1968, when the New York building they were renting was put up for sale, Sun Ra and the Arkestra relocated to the <a href="/wiki/Germantown,_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Germantown</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>. Sun Ra moved into a house on Morton Street that became the Arkestra's base of operations until his death. It eventually became known as the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra. Apart from occasional complaints about the noise of rehearsals, they were soon regarded as good neighbors because of their friendliness, drug-free living, and rapport with youngsters. The saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Danny_Ray_Thompson" title="Danny Ray Thompson">Danny Ray Thompson</a> owned and operated the Pharaoh's Den, a convenience store in the neighborhood. When lightning struck a tree on their street, Sun Ra took it as a good omen. James Jacson fashioned the Cosmic Infinity Drum from the scorched tree trunk. They commuted via railroad to New York for the Monday night gig at Slug's and for other engagements. </p><p>Sun Ra became a fixture in Philadelphia, appearing semi-regularly on <a href="/wiki/WXPN" title="WXPN">WXPN</a> radio, giving lectures to community groups, or visiting the city's libraries. In the mid-1970s, the Arkestra sometimes played free Saturday afternoon concerts in a Germantown park near their home. At their mid-1970s shows in Philadelphia nightclubs, someone stood at the back of the room, selling stacks of unmarked LPs in plain white sleeves, pressed from recordings of the band's live performances. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="California_and_world_tours_(1968–1993)"><span id="California_and_world_tours_.281968.E2.80.931993.29"></span>California and world tours (1968–1993)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: California and world tours (1968–1993)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SunRa_in_1992_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-SunRa_in_1992_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="530" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption>Sun Ra at the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Conservatory_of_Music" title="New England Conservatory of Music">New England Conservatory of Music</a>, February 27, 1992</figcaption></figure> <p>In late 1968, Sun Ra and the Arkestra made their first tour of the US West Coast. Reactions were mixed. <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">Hippies</a> accustomed to long-form psychedelia like the <a href="/wiki/Grateful_Dead" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a> were often bewildered by the Arkestra. By this time, the performance included 20–30 musicians, dancers, singers, <a href="/wiki/Fire-eater" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire-eater">fire-eaters</a>, and elaborate lighting. John Burks of <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> wrote a positive review of a <a href="/wiki/San_Jose_State_College" class="mw-redirect" title="San Jose State College">San Jose State College</a> concert. Sun Ra was featured on the April 19, 1969 cover of <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine, which introduced his inscrutable gaze to millions. During this tour, Damon Choice, then an art student at San Jose, joined the Arkestra and became its <a href="/wiki/Vibraphonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Vibraphonist">vibraphonist</a>. </p><p>Starting with concerts in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in 1970, the Arkestra began to tour internationally. They played to audiences who had known his music only through records. Sun Ra continued playing in Europe almost to the end of his life. The saxophonist Danny Ray Thompson became a <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> tour and business manager during this era, specializing in what he called "no bullshit <a href="/wiki/Cash_on_delivery" title="Cash on delivery">C.O.D.</a>,"<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> preferring to take cash before performing or delivering records. </p><p>In early 1971, Sun Ra was appointed as <a href="/wiki/Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">artist-in-residence</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a>, teaching a course called <i>The Black Man In the <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">Cosmos</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Few students enrolled, but his classes were often full of curious people from the surrounding community. One half-hour of each class was devoted to a lecture (complete with handouts and homework assignments), the other half-hour to an Arkestra performance or Sun Ra keyboard solo. Reading lists included the works of <a href="/wiki/Madame_Blavatsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Madame Blavatsky">Madame Blavatsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Dumas" title="Henry Dumas">Henry Dumas</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bardo_Thodol" title="Bardo Thodol">Tibetan Book of the Dead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hislop" title="Alexander Hislop">Alexander Hislop</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Babylons" title="The Two Babylons">The Two Babylons</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Oahspe" class="mw-redirect" title="Oahspe">The Book of Oahspe</a>, and assorted volumes concerning <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyph" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian hieroglyph">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a>, <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a>, and other topics. </p><p>In 1971, Sun Ra traveled throughout Egypt with the Arkestra at the invitation of the drummer <a href="/wiki/Salah_Ragab" title="Salah Ragab">Salah Ragab</a>. He returned to Egypt in 1983 and 1984, when he recorded with Ragab. Recordings made in Egypt were released as <i>Live in Egypt</i>, <i>Nidhamu</i>, <i>Sun Ra Meets Salah Ragab</i>, <i>Egypt Strut</i> and <i>Horizon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1972, San Francisco public TV station <a href="/wiki/KQED_(TV)" title="KQED (TV)">KQED</a> producer John Coney, producer <a href="/wiki/Jim_Newman_(Dilexi_Gallery,_Other_Minds)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Newman (Dilexi Gallery, Other Minds)">Jim Newman</a>, and screenwriter Joshua Smith worked with Sun Ra to produce an 85-minute feature film, entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Space_Is_the_Place" title="Space Is the Place">Space Is the Place</a></i>, with Sun Ra's Arkestra and an ensemble of actors assembled by the production team. It was filmed in <a href="/wiki/Oakland" class="mw-redirect" title="Oakland">Oakland</a> and <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>. A 1975 show concert by the Arkestra in Cleveland featured an early lineup of <a href="/wiki/Devo" title="Devo">Devo</a> as the opening act. On May 20, 1978, Sun Ra and the Arkestra appeared on the TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> (S3 E20). </p><p>In New York City in the fall of 1979, Sun Ra and the Arkestra played as the "house band" at the <a href="/wiki/Squat_Theatre" title="Squat Theatre">Squat Theatre</a> on 23rd Street, which was the performance venue of the <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a> Hungarian theater troupe.<sup id="cite_ref-Boch_2017_268_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boch_2017_268-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Janos, their manager, transformed the theater into a nightclub while most of the troupe was away that season performing in Europe. <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Harry" title="Debbie Harry">Debbie Harry</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground" title="The Velvet Underground">The Velvet Underground</a>'s <a href="/wiki/John_Cale" title="John Cale">John Cale</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nico" title="Nico">Nico</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Andy_Warhol" title="Andy Warhol">Andy Warhol</a>'s Factory days), <a href="/wiki/John_Lurie" title="John Lurie">John Lurie</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Lounge_Lizards" title="The Lounge Lizards">The Lounge Lizards</a>, and other pop and avant-garde musicians were regulars. Sun Ra was disciplined and drank only club soda at the gigs, but did not impose his strict code on his musicians. They respected his discipline and authority. Soft-spoken and charismatic, Sun Ra turned Squat Theater into a universe of big band "space" jazz backed by a floor show of sexy Jupiterettes. He directed while playing three synthesizers at the same time. In those days, "Space Is The Place" was the space at Squat.<sup id="cite_ref-Boch_2017_268_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boch_2017_268-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Arkestra continued their touring and recording through the 1980s and into the 1990s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun Ra had a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a> in 1990, but kept composing, performing, and leading the Arkestra. Late in his career, he opened a few concerts for the New York–based rock group <a href="/wiki/Sonic_Youth" title="Sonic Youth">Sonic Youth</a>. When too ill to perform and tour, Sun Ra appointed Gilmore to lead the Arkestra. (Gilmore was frail from <a href="/wiki/Emphysema" title="Emphysema">emphysema</a>; after his death in 1995, Allen took over leadership of the Arkestra.) </p><p>In late 1992, Sun Ra returned to his birth city of Birmingham to live with his older sister, Mary Jenkins, who (along with various Blount cousins) became his caretaker. In January, he was admitted to Princeton Baptist Medical Center, suffering from <a href="/wiki/Congestive_heart_failure" class="mw-redirect" title="Congestive heart failure">congestive heart failure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Respiratory_failure" title="Respiratory failure">respiratory failure</a>, strokes, <a href="/wiki/Cardiovascular_disease" title="Cardiovascular disease">circulatory problems</a>, and other serious maladies.<sup id="cite_ref-watrous_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watrous-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died in the hospital on May 30, 1993, and was buried at the <a href="/wiki/Elmwood_Cemetery_(Birmingham,_Alabama)" title="Elmwood Cemetery (Birmingham, Alabama)">Elmwood Cemetery</a>. The footstone reads "Herman Sonny Blount aka Le Sony'r Ra".<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Arkestra">The Arkestra</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: The Arkestra"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg/300px-Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg/450px-Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg/600px-Sun_ra_arkestra.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3918" data-file-height="1991" /></a><figcaption>The Sun Ra Arkestra performing in London in 2010.</figcaption></figure><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Sun_Ra_Arkestra" title="The Sun Ra Arkestra">The Sun Ra Arkestra</a></div> <p>Following Sun Ra's death, the Arkestra was led by tenor saxophonist <a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musician)" title="John Gilmore (musician)">John Gilmore</a> and later performed under the direction of alto saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a>. A 1999 album led by Allen, <i>Song for the Sun</i>, featured <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Hopps" title="Jimmy Hopps">Jimmy Hopps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Griffin" title="Dick Griffin">Dick Griffin</a>. In the summer of 2004 the Arkestra became the first American jazz band to perform in <a href="/wiki/Tuva" title="Tuva">Tuva</a>, in southern Siberia, where they played five sets at the Ustuu-Huree Festival.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of July 2019, the Arkestra continues to tour and perform. In September 2008 they played for 7 days in a row at the <a href="/wiki/ZXZW" class="mw-redirect" title="ZXZW">ZXZW</a> festival, each day emphasizing different aspects of the musical legacy of Sun Ra. In 2009, they performed at Philadelphia's <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Contemporary_Art,_Philadelphia" title="Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia">Institute of Contemporary Art</a> in conjunction with an exhibition that explored the intersection of the Arkestra's performing legacy and the practice of contemporary art.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, they ventured to Australia for the first time, for the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Melbourne_Jazz_Festival" title="Melbourne Jazz Festival">Melbourne International Jazz Festival</a> and MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Tasmania. In 2017, the Arkestra performed at the 31st <a href="/wiki/Lowell_Folk_Festival" title="Lowell Folk Festival">Lowell Folk Festival</a> in Lowell Massachusetts.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, it was announced that the Arkestra would perform at <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Theatre_(Portland,_Oregon)" title="Hollywood Theatre (Portland, Oregon)">Hollywood Theater</a> for three nights on July 14, 15, and 16.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 22, 2021, they performed at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bricartsmedia.org/events-performances/bric-jazzfest-back-bric-house">BRIC JazzFest</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2024">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> in Downtown Brooklyn. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music">Music</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun Ra's piano technique touched on many styles: his youthful fascination with <a href="/wiki/Boogie_woogie" class="mw-redirect" title="Boogie woogie">boogie woogie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stride_piano" class="mw-redirect" title="Stride piano">stride piano</a> and <a href="/wiki/Blues" title="Blues">blues</a>, a sometimes refined touch reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Count_Basie" title="Count Basie">Count Basie</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Jamal" title="Ahmad Jamal">Ahmad Jamal</a>, and angular phrases in the style of <a href="/wiki/Thelonious_Monk" title="Thelonious Monk">Thelonious Monk</a> or brutal, percussive attacks like <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Taylor" title="Cecil Taylor">Cecil Taylor</a>. Often overlooked is the range of influences from <a href="/wiki/Classical_music" title="Classical music">classical music</a> – Sun Ra cited <a href="/wiki/Chopin" class="mw-redirect" title="Chopin">Chopin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rachmaninoff" class="mw-redirect" title="Rachmaninoff">Rachmaninoff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg" title="Arnold Schoenberg">Schoenberg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shostakovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Shostakovich">Shostakovich</a> as his favorite composers for the piano.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun Ra's music can be roughly divided into three phases, but his records and performances were full of surprises and the following categories should be regarded only as approximations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chicago_phase">Chicago phase</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Chicago phase"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first period occurred in the 1950s when Sun Ra's music evolved from <a href="/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big band</a> <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing</a> into the outer-space-themed "cosmic jazz" for which he was best known. Music critics and jazz historians say some of his best work was recorded during this period and it is also some of his most accessible music. Sun Ra's music in this era was often tightly arranged and sometimes reminiscent of <a href="/wiki/Duke_Ellington" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>'s, Count Basie's, or other important swing music ensembles. However, there was a strong influence from post-swing styles like <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hard_bop" title="Hard bop">hard bop</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Modal_jazz" title="Modal jazz">modal jazz</a>, and touches of the exotic and hints of the experimentalism that dominated his later music. Notable Sun Ra albums from the 1950s include <i><a href="/wiki/Visits_Planet_Earth" class="mw-redirect" title="Visits Planet Earth">Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Interstellar_Low_Ways" title="Interstellar Low Ways">Interstellar Low Ways</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Super-Sonic_Jazz" title="Super-Sonic Jazz">Super-Sonic Jazz</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/We_Travel_the_Space_Ways" title="We Travel the Space Ways">We Travel the Space Ways</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Nubians_of_Plutonia" title="The Nubians of Plutonia">The Nubians of Plutonia</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_In_Silhouette" class="mw-redirect" title="Jazz In Silhouette">Jazz In Silhouette</a></i>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Boykins" title="Ronnie Boykins">Ronnie Boykins</a>, Sun Ra's bassist, has been described as "the pivot around which much of Sun Ra's music revolved for eight years."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is especially pronounced on the key recordings from 1965 (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_City_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="The Magic City (Sun Ra album)">The Magic City</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Heliocentric_Worlds_of_Sun_Ra,_Volume_One" title="The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One">The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Heliocentric_Worlds_of_Sun_Ra,_Volume_Two" title="The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two">The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two</a></i>) where the intertwining lines of Boykins' bass and Ra's electronic keyboards provide cohesion.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_York_phase">New York phase</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: New York phase"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the move to New York, Sun Ra and company plunged headlong into the experimentalism that they had only hinted at in Chicago. The music was often extremely loud and the Arkestra grew to include multiple drummers and percussionists. In recordings of this era, Ra began to use new technologies—such as extensive use of tape delay—to assemble spatial sound pieces, such as "Saturn", which were far removed from earlier compositions. Recordings and live performances often featured passages for unusual instrumental combinations, and passages of collective playing that incorporated <a href="/wiki/Free_improvisation" title="Free improvisation">free improvisation</a>. It is often difficult to tell where compositions end and improvisations begin. </p><p>In this era, Sun Ra began conducting using hand and body gestures. This system inspired cornetist <a href="/wiki/Butch_Morris" title="Butch Morris">Butch Morris</a>, who later developed his own more highly refined way to conduct improvisers. </p><p>Though often associated with avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra did not believe his work could be classified as "free music": "I have to make sure that every note, every nuance, is correct... If you want to call it that, spell it <i>p-h-r-e</i>, because <i>ph</i> is a definite article and <i>re</i> is the name of the sun. So I play <i>phre</i> music – music of the sun."<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Seeking to broaden his compositional possibilities, Sun Ra insisted all band members double on various percussion instruments – predating <a href="/wiki/World_music" title="World music">world music</a> by drawing on various ethnic musical forms – and most saxophonists became <a href="/wiki/Multireedist" class="mw-redirect" title="Multireedist">multireedists</a>, adding instruments such as flutes, oboes, or clarinets to their arsenals. In this era, Sun Ra was among the first of any musicians to make extensive and pioneering use of <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synthesizers</a> and other various <a href="/wiki/Electronic_keyboards" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic keyboards">electronic keyboards</a>; he was given a prototype <a href="/wiki/Minimoog" title="Minimoog">Minimoog</a> by its inventor, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Moog" title="Robert Moog">Robert Moog</a>. According to the <a href="/wiki/Bob_Moog_Foundation" title="Bob Moog Foundation">Bob Moog Foundation</a>: "Sun Ra first met Robert Moog after <i><a href="/wiki/Down_Beat" class="mw-redirect" title="Down Beat">Downbeat</a></i> journalist and Sun Ra acquaintance <a href="/wiki/Tam_Fiofori" title="Tam Fiofori">Tam Fiofori</a> arranged for a visit to Moog’s factory in <a href="/wiki/Trumansburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Trumansburg">Trumansburg</a> in the Fall of 1969....it was during this visit that Moog loaned Sun Ra a prototype Minimoog (Model B), several months before the commercial instrument (Model D) was introduced in March 1970. Ra immediately added the instrument to his repertoire of keyboards, later acquired a second, and featured the Minimoog prominently on many of his recordings of the early 1970s."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notable titles from this period include <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_City_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="The Magic City (Sun Ra album)">The Magic City</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Tones_for_Mental_Therapy" title="Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy">Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy</a></i>, <i>When Sun Comes Out</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Heliocentric_Worlds_of_Sun_Ra,_Volume_One" title="The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One">The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Atlantis (Sun Ra album)">Atlantis</a></i>, <i>Secrets of the Sun</i> and <i>Other Planes of There</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Philadelphia_phase">Philadelphia phase</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Philadelphia phase"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During their third period, beginning in the 1970s, Sun Ra and the Arkestra settled down into a relatively conventional sound, often incorporating swing standards, although their records and concerts were still highly eclectic and energetic, and typically included at least one lengthy, semi-improvised percussion jam. Sun Ra was explicitly asserting a continuity with the ignored jazz tradition: "They tried to fool you, now I got to school you, about jazz, about jazz" he chanted in concerts,<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> framing the inclusion of pieces by <a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson" title="Fletcher Henderson">Fletcher Henderson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton" title="Jelly Roll Morton">Jelly Roll Morton</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the 1970s Sun Ra took a liking to the films of <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>. He incorporated smatterings of Disney musical numbers into many of his performances from then on. In the late 1980s the Arkestra performed a concert at <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Walt Disney World</a>. The Arkestra's version of "<a href="/wiki/Pink_Elephants_on_Parade" title="Pink Elephants on Parade">Pink Elephants on Parade</a>" is available on <i>Stay Awake</i>, a tribute album of Disney tunes played by various artists and produced by <a href="/wiki/Hal_Willner" title="Hal Willner">Hal Willner</a>. A number of Sun Ra's 1970s concerts are available on CD, but none have received a wide release in comparison to his earlier music. In 1978–1980 performances, Sun Ra added a large electronic creation, the Outerspace Visual Communicator, which produced images rather than sounds; this was performed at a keyboard by its inventor, Bill Sebastian. During concerts, the OVC usually was positioned at center stage behind the Arkestra while Sebastian sat on stage with the musicians. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Musicians">Musicians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Musicians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dozens of musicians—perhaps hundreds—passed through Sun Ra's bands over the years. Some stayed with him for decades, whilst others played on only a few recordings or performances. </p><p>Sun Ra was personally responsible for the vast majority of the constant changes in the Arkestra's lineup. According to contrabassist <a href="/wiki/Jiunie_Booth" class="mw-redirect" title="Jiunie Booth">Jiunie Booth</a>, a member of the Arkestra, Sun Ra did not confront any musician whose performance he was unsatisfied with. Instead, he would simply gather the entire Arkestra minus the offending musician, and skip town—leaving the fired musician stranded. The following is a partial list of musical collaborators, and the eras when they played with Sun Ra or the Arkestra: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 48em;"> <ul><li>Yahya Abdul-Majid, tenor saxophone (1980–2020)</li> <li>Fred Adams, trumpet (1981–?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luqman_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Luqman Ali">Luqman Ali</a> (Edward Skinner), drums (1960,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1977–?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a>, alto saxophone, flute, oboe (1957–present)</li> <li>Atakatune (Stanley Morgan), percussion (1972–1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ay%C3%A9_Aton" title="Ayé Aton">Ayé Aton</a> (Robert Underwood), drums and percussion (1972–1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Barry_(musician)" title="Robert Barry (musician)">Robert Barry</a>, drums (1955–1968, 1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronnie_Boykins" title="Ronnie Boykins">Ronnie Boykins</a>, double bass (1957–1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiunie_Booth" class="mw-redirect" title="Jiunie Booth">Arthur "Jiunie" Booth</a>, double bass</li> <li>Darryl Brown, drums (1970–1972)</li> <li>Owen "Fiidla" Brown, violin, dance, vocals (1987–1990s and later appearances)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Bunn" title="Tony Bunn">Tony Bunn</a>, electric bass (1976)</li> <li>Francisco Mora Catlett, drums (1973–1980)</li> <li>Samarai Celestial (Eric Walker), drums (1979–1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Cherry_(trumpeter)" title="Don Cherry (trumpeter)">Don Cherry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pocket_trumpet" title="Pocket trumpet">pocket trumpet</a> (1983–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Chancey" title="Vincent Chancey">Vincent Chancey</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_horn" title="French horn">French horn</a> (1976–1995)</li> <li>Damon Choice, <a href="/wiki/Vibraphone" title="Vibraphone">vibraphone</a> (1974–?)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Cohran" title="Phil Cohran">Phil Cohran</a>, trumpet (1959–1961)</li> <li>India Cooke, violin (1990–1995)</li> <li>Danny Davis, alto saxophone, flute (1962–1977, 1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Davis_(musician)" title="Dave Davis (musician)">Dave Davis</a>, trombone (1997–present)</li> <li>Joey DeStefano, alto saxophone (1968–1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Doyle" title="Arthur Doyle">Arthur Doyle</a>, saxophone (1968, 1989)</li> <li>Bruce Edwards. guitar (1983–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Gale" title="Eddie Gale">Eddie Gale</a>, trumpet (1960s)</li> <li>Richard Evans, bass (1950s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musician)" title="John Gilmore (musician)">John Gilmore</a>, tenor saxophone, <a href="/wiki/Bass_clarinet" title="Bass clarinet">bass clarinet</a> (1954–1964, 1965–1995)</li> <li>Kwame Hadi (Lamont McClamb), trumpet, conga, vibraphone (1969–1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Higgins" title="Billy Higgins">Billy Higgins</a>, drums, (1989)</li> <li>Tyrone Hill, trombone (1979–present)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tommy_%22Bugs%22_Hunter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tommy "Bugs" Hunter (page does not exist)">Tommy "Bugs" Hunter</a>, drums, <a href="/wiki/Sound_engineer" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound engineer">sound engineer</a> (1951–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmed_Abdullah" title="Ahmed Abdullah">Ahmed Abdullah</a>, trumpet, (1976–1993)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Jacson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Jacson (page does not exist)">James Jacson</a>, bassoon, oboe, flute, Ancient Egyptian infinity drum (1963–1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Jarvis" title="Clifford Jarvis">Clifford Jarvis</a>, drums, (1961–1976, 1983)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Donald_Jones_(musician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Donald Jones (musician) (page does not exist)">Donald Jones</a>, drums (1973–1974)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dr._VonFiend_(musician)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dr. VonFiend (musician) (page does not exist)">Dr. VonFiend (musician)</a>, various instruments, effects (2006–2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Kramer" title="Wayne Kramer">Wayne Kramer</a>, guitar (2006)<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Elson_Nascimento&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elson Nascimento (page does not exist)">Elson Nascimento</a>, percussion, vocals (1987–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Northern" title="Bob Northern">Bob Northern</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_horn" title="French horn">french horn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eloe_Omoe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eloe Omoe (page does not exist)">Eloe Omoe</a>, bass clarinet, oboe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ore" title="John Ore">John Ore</a>, double bass</li> <li>Taylor Richardson, guitar (1979–1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Patrick_(musician)" title="Pat Patrick (musician)">Pat Patrick</a>, baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute (1950–1959, 1961–1977, 1985–1988)<sup id="cite_ref-Patrick_Grove_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Patrick_Grove-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Priester" title="Julian Priester">Julian Priester</a>, trombone (1955–1956, 1980s–1990s)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rollo_Radford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rollo Radford (page does not exist)">Rollo Radford</a>, bass</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knoel_Scott" title="Knoel Scott">Knoel Scott</a>, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, singer and dancer (1979–present)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buster_Smith_(drummer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buster Smith (drummer) (page does not exist)">Buster Smith</a>, drums</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marvin_%22Bugalu%22_Smith" title="Marvin "Bugalu" Smith">Marvin "Bugalu" Smith</a>, drums</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Spaulding" title="James Spaulding">James Spaulding</a>, alto sax, flute (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ray_(trumpeter)" title="Michael Ray (trumpeter)">Michael Ray</a>, trumpet (1978–present)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pharoah_Sanders" title="Pharoah Sanders">Pharoah Sanders</a>, saxophone (1964–1965)</li> <li>Bill Sebastian, outerspace visual communicator (1978–1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talvin_Singh" title="Talvin Singh">Talvin Singh</a>, tablas<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Silva" title="Alan Silva">Alan Silva</a>, double bass, cello, violin (early 1970s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tani_Tabbal" title="Tani Tabbal">Tani Tabbal</a>, drums</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Thornton" title="Clifford Thornton">Clifford Thornton</a>, trombone</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_Tyson" title="June Tyson">June Tyson</a>, singer, violin</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outer_Space_Visual_Communicator">Outer Space Visual Communicator</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Outer Space Visual Communicator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Outer Space Visual Communicator was a giant machine that was played with hands and feet to create light designs, similar to how musicians create and sound with their instruments. The name of the instrument arose from Bill Sebastian's collaboration with Sun Ra, who incorporated the OVC into the Arkestra from 1978 to 1980 and experimented on video applications from 1981 to 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Philosophy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Sun Ra's <a href="/wiki/World_view" class="mw-redirect" title="World view">world view</a> was often described as a philosophy, but he rejected this term, describing his own manner as an "equation" and saying that while philosophy is based on theories and abstract reasoning, his method was based on logic and pragmatism.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Many of the Arkestra cite Sun Ra's teachings as pivotal in inspiring their long-term devotion to music. His equation was rarely (if ever) explained as a whole; instead, it was related in bits and pieces over many years, leading some to doubt that he had a coherent message. However, Martinelli argues that, when considered as a whole, one can discern a unified world view that draws upon many sources, but is also unique to Sun Ra, writing:<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Sun Ra presents a unified conception, incorporating music, myth, and performance into his multi-leveled equations. Every aspect of the Sun Ra experience, from business practices like Saturn Records to published collections of poetry to his 35-year career in music, is a manifestation of his equations. Sun Ra seeks to elevate humanity beyond their current earthbound state, tied to outmoded conceptions of life and death when the potential future of immortality awaits them. As <a href="/wiki/Manly_Palmer_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Manly Palmer Hall">Hall</a> has put it, "In this era of 'practical' things men ridicule even the existence of God. They scoff at goodness while they ponder with befuddled minds the phantasmagoria of materiality. They have forgotten the path which leads beyond the stars."<sup id="cite_ref-martinelli_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-martinelli-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>He drew on sources as diverse as the <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosicrucian" class="mw-redirect" title="Rosicrucian">Rosicrucianism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mediumship" title="Mediumship">channeling</a>, <a href="/wiki/Numerology" title="Numerology">numerology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Freemasonry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Ancient Egyptian religion">Ancient Egyptian Mysticism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Black_nationalism" title="Black nationalism">Black nationalism</a>. Sun Ra's system had distinct <a href="/wiki/Gnostic" class="mw-redirect" title="Gnostic">Gnostic</a> leanings,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> arguing that the god of most monotheistic religions was not the creator god, not the ultimate god, but a lesser, evil being. Sun Ra was wary of the Bible, knowing that it had been used to justify slavery. He often rearranged and reworded Biblical passages (and reworked many other words, names, or phrases) in an attempt to uncover "hidden" meanings.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The most obvious evidence of this system was Ra's practice of renaming many of the musicians who played with him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Bassoonist/multireedist James Jacson had studied <a href="/wiki/Zen_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Zen Buddhism">Zen Buddhism</a> before joining Sun Ra and identified strong similarities between Zen teachings and practices (particularly Zen <a href="/wiki/Koan" title="Koan">koans</a>) and Ra's use of <i>non sequiturs</i> and seemingly absurd replies to questions.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drummer Art Jenkins admitted that Sun Ra's "nonsense" sometimes troubled his thoughts for days until inspiring a sort of <a href="/wiki/Paradigm_shift" title="Paradigm shift">paradigm shift</a>, or profound change in outlook.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Drummer <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cyrille" title="Andrew Cyrille">Andrew Cyrille</a> said Sun Ra's comments were "very interesting stuff... whether you believed it or not. And a lot of times it was humorous, and a lot of times it was ridiculous, and a lot of times it was right on the money."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun Ra's philosophy can be further understood in viewing his film <i>Space is the Place.</i> The film opens with Sun Ra on a distant planet, where the music and vibrations are much different from Earth where the air is filled with the sounds of "guns, anger and frustration."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A colony is erected on this planet specifically for black people because only on a distant planet will the black race be free to return to their natural vibrations and live in harmony. This will give rise to an "altered destiny."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film also discloses Sun Ra's ideas on how to get his people to another planet. This can be accomplished through, "isotopic teleportation, trans-molecularization, or better still – teleport the whole planet here through music."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_61-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sun_Ra_and_black_culture">Sun Ra and black culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sun Ra and black culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Szwed,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sun Ra's view of his relationship to black people and black cultures "changed drastically" over time. Initially, Sun Ra identified closely with broader struggles for black power, black political influence, and black identity, and saw his own music as a key element in educating and liberating blacks. But by the heyday of <a href="/wiki/Black_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Power">Black Power</a> radicalism in the 1960s, Sun Ra was expressing disillusionment with these aims. He denied feeling closely connected to any race. In 1970 he said: </p> <blockquote><p>I couldn't approach black people with the truth because they like lies. They live lies... At one time I felt that white people were to blame for everything, but then I found out that they were just puppets and pawns of some greater force, which has been using them... Some force is having a good time [manipulating black and white people] and looking, enjoying itself up in a reserved seat, wondering, "I wonder when they're going to wake up."<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Afrofuturism">Afrofuturism</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Afrofuturism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun Ra is considered to be an early pioneer of the <a href="/wiki/Afrofuturism" title="Afrofuturism">Afrofuturism</a> movement due to his music, writings and other works.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The influence of Sun Ra can be seen throughout many aspects of black music. He grounded his practice of Afrofuturism in a musical tradition that has been described as ‘performing blackness’’. Sun Ra lived out his beliefs of Afrofuturism in his daily life by embodying the movement not only in his music, but also in his clothes and actions. This embodiment of the narrative allowed him to demonstrate black nationalism as a counternarrative to the contemporary culture. </p><p>It was in Chicago, as well, in the mid-fifties, that Ra began experimenting with extraterrestriality in his stage show, sometimes playing regular cocktail lounges dressed in space suits and ancient Egyptian regalia. By placing his band and performances in space and extraterrestrial environments Sun Ra <a href="/wiki/Worldbuilding" title="Worldbuilding">built a world</a> that was his own view of how the African diaspora connected.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence_and_legacy">Influence and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Influence and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many of Sun Ra's innovations remain important and groundbreaking. Ra was one of the first jazz leaders to use two double basses, to employ the electric bass, to play electronic keyboards, to use extensive percussion and <a href="/wiki/Polyrhythm" title="Polyrhythm">polyrhythms</a>, to explore <a href="/wiki/Musical_mode" class="mw-redirect" title="Musical mode">modal</a> music and to pioneer solo and group <a href="/wiki/Free_improvisation" title="Free improvisation">freeform improvisations</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In addition, he made his mark in the wider cultural context: he proclaimed the African origins of jazz, reaffirmed pride in black history and reasserted the spiritual and mystical dimensions of music, all important factors in the black cultural/political renaissance of the 1960s.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/NRBQ" title="NRBQ">NRBQ</a> recorded "Rocket #9" in 1968 for their debut album on <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a>. Sun Ra had given NRBQ's <a href="/wiki/Terry_Adams_(musician)" title="Terry Adams (musician)">Terry Adams</a> a copy of the song on 45 and told him, "This is especially for you," which Adams reported inspired him to reform the band after a period of inactivity. The band still includes Sun Ra's compositions in their performances, and besides "Rocket #9" have released recordings of "We Travel the Spaceways" and "Love in Outer Space." Several members of the Arkestra have toured with NRBQ over the years, including <a href="/wiki/Laurdine_Patrick" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurdine Patrick">Pat Patrick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a>, Knoel Scott, Tyrone Hill and Danny Thompson. Adams has joined the Arkestra as their pianist on several tours, most recently during a February 2016 tour of cities in the US southeast. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>'s <a href="/wiki/MC5" title="MC5">MC5</a> played a handful of shows with Sun Ra and were influenced by his works immensely. One of their songs from their premiere album <i><a href="/wiki/Kick_Out_the_Jams" title="Kick Out the Jams">Kick Out the Jams</a></i> (1969) featured a track called <i>Starship</i>, which was based on a poem by Ra.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun Ra was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_Jazz_Hall_of_Fame" title="Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame">Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame</a> in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Sun Ra Repatriation Project</i> was started in 2008 with the aim of using interplanetary communication with a view to facilitating Sun Ra's return to planet Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Filmmaker and visual artist <a href="/wiki/Cauleen_Smith" title="Cauleen Smith">Cauleen Smith</a> has heavily researched the life and legacy of Sun Ra. Her 2013 exhibition "17" "arises out of [her] research into the legacy of Sun Ra, who was himself a student of numerology and achieved a kind of cultural immortality the number 17 might be said to refer to".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her project "The Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band" includes several components related to Sun Ra. "One component (2010) of the project is the production of five flash mob street performances involving a marching band inspired by Sun Ra's Arkestra. The second component of the project... is a full-length video that chronicles the urban legends of Sun Ra’s time in Chicago as well as the contemporary artists who live and work in this city".<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "Sun Ra Revival Post-Krautrock Archestra",<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> formed in Australia during 2014, paid tribute to Sun Ra's philosophies and musical ideas within their albums <i>Realm Beyond Realm</i> and <i>Sun Ra Kills the World</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Spatial_AKA_Orchestra" title="The Spatial AKA Orchestra">The Spatial AKA Orchestra</a>, formed in 2006 by <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Dammers" title="Jerry Dammers">Jerry Dammers</a> (the main songwriter of British ska revival band <a href="/wiki/The_Specials" title="The Specials">The Specials</a>), was originally created as a tribute to Sun Ra, borrowing many of the ideas, themes and tropes from Sun Ra's own performances. </p><p>In 2022, a building at 5626 Morton Street known as the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra was listed as a historic landmark in the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="Philadelphia Register of Historic Places">Philadelphia Register of Historic Places</a>. One of its inhabitants, <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a>, known for his work with <a href="/wiki/The_Sun_Ra_Arkestra" title="The Sun Ra Arkestra">The Sun Ra Arkestra</a>, began living there in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> has an extensive collection of Sun Ra's works and personal items in the Special Collections Research Center at the <a href="/wiki/Regenstein_Library" title="Regenstein Library">Regenstein Library</a>. The collection was assembled by Ra's business manager <a href="/wiki/Alton_Abraham" title="Alton Abraham">Alton Abraham</a> and is open to the public upon request. The Special Collections Research Center has also repeatedly exhibited Sun Ra's work. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sun_Ra_discography" title="Sun Ra discography">Sun Ra discography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Space_Is_the_Place" title="Space Is the Place">Space Is the Place</a></i> (1974) is a feature-length film that stars Sun Ra and his band as themselves. The soundtrack, also by Sun Ra, is available on CD. The film follows Sun Ra after he returns to Chicago from many years of space travel with his Arkestra. In a meeting with "the Overseer" – a devil-like figure stationed in the desert – Sun Ra agrees to play a game of cards to "win" the black community. Sun Ra's goal is to transport the American black community to a new planet he discovered while on his journey, and that he hopes to use as a home for an entirely black population. The artist's mission is to "teleport the whole planet through music", but his attempts are often misunderstood by his supposed converts.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a few documentary films, including <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mugge" title="Robert Mugge">Robert Mugge</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Sun_Ra:_A_Joyful_Noise" title="Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise">Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise</a></i> (1980). It interspersed passages of performances and rehearsals with Sun Ra's commentary on various subjects ranging from today's youth to his own place in the cosmos. More recently, <a href="/wiki/Don_Letts" title="Don Letts">Don Letts</a>' <i>Sun Ra – Brother from Another Planet</i> (2005) incorporated some of Mugge's material, and includes some additional interviews. <i>Points on a Space Age</i> (2009) is a documentary by Ephrahaim Asili.<sup id="cite_ref-Points_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Points-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "It's a 60-minute doc along the lines of the talking-head-intercut-with performance clips style."<sup id="cite_ref-Points_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Points-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sun Ra wrote an enormous number of songs and material regarding his spiritual beliefs and music. A magazine titled <i>Sun Ra Research</i> was published irregularly for many years, providing extensive documentation of Sun Ra's perspectives on many issues. Sun Ra's collected poetry and prose is available as a book, published May 2005, entitled <i>Sun Ra, The Immeasurable Equation</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another book of over 260 of Sun Ra's poems, <i>Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1: Immeasurable Equation</i> was published by Phaelos Books in November 2005. <i>The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets</i>, was published in book form in 2005, by WhiteWalls. A collection of Sun Ra's poetry, <i>This Planet Is Doomed</i>, was published by <a href="/wiki/Miriam_Linna#Kicks_Books" title="Miriam Linna">Kicks Books</a> in 2011. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-la-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-la_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFSilsbee2014" class="citation news cs1">Silsbee, Kirk (April 4, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/tn-gnp-the-light-still-shines-on-sun-ra-20140404-story.html">"The light still shines on Sun Ra"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/LA_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="LA Times">LA Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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BoD – Books on Demand. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8334-2659-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-8334-2659-9"><bdi>978-3-8334-2659-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Immeasurable+Equation%3A+The+Collected+Poetry+and+Prose&rft.pub=BoD+%E2%80%93+Books+on+Demand&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-3-8334-2659-9&rft.aulast=Ra&rft.aufirst=Sun&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DtffvurF89-EC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASun+Ra" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRaschka2014" class="citation book cs1">Raschka, Chris. (2014). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cosmobiographyof0000rasc"><i>The Cosmo-Biography of Sun Ra: the Sound of Joy is Enlightening</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/Candlewick_Press" title="Candlewick Press">Candlewick Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7636-5806-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7636-5806-9"><bdi>978-0-7636-5806-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cosmo-Biography+of+Sun+Ra%3A+the+Sound+of+Joy+is+Enlightening&rft.pub=Candlewick+Press&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0-7636-5806-9&rft.aulast=Raschka&rft.aufirst=Chris.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcosmobiographyof0000rasc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASun+Ra" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSzwed1998" class="citation book cs1">Szwed, John F. (August 21, 1998). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/spaceisplacelive00szwe"><i>Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra</i></a></span>. <a href="/wiki/Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80855-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80855-5"><bdi>978-0-306-80855-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Space+Is+the+Place%3A+The+Lives+and+Times+of+Sun+Ra&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1998-08-21&rft.isbn=978-0-306-80855-5&rft.aulast=Szwed&rft.aufirst=John+F.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fspaceisplacelive00szwe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASun+Ra" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRaWolf,_James_L.Geerken,_Hartmut2006" class="citation book cs1">Ra, Sun; Wolf, James L.; Geerken, Hartmut (September 1, 2006). <i>Sun Ra: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose</i>. Waitawhile. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-8334-2659-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-8334-2659-9"><bdi>978-3-8334-2659-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sun+Ra%3A+The+Immeasurable+Equation%3A+The+Collected+Poetry+and+Prose&rft.pub=Waitawhile&rft.date=2006-09-01&rft.isbn=978-3-8334-2659-9&rft.aulast=Ra&rft.aufirst=Sun&rft.au=Wolf%2C+James+L.&rft.au=Geerken%2C+Hartmut&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASun+Ra" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRa2006" class="citation book cs1">Ra, Sun (August 1, 2006). Elms, Anthony; <a href="/wiki/John_Corbett_(writer)" title="John Corbett (writer)">Corbett, John</a> (eds.). <i>The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets</i>. <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>: WhiteWalls. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-945323-07-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-945323-07-5"><bdi>978-0-945323-07-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Wisdom+of+Sun+Ra%3A+Sun+Ra%27s+Polemical+Broadsheets+and+Streetcorner+Leaflets&rft.place=Chicago%2C+Illinois&rft.pub=WhiteWalls&rft.date=2006-08-01&rft.isbn=978-0-945323-07-5&rft.aulast=Ra&rft.aufirst=Sun&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASun+Ra" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thesunraarkestra.com/">The Sun Ra Arkestra</a>, Official site, under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Allen" title="Marshall Allen">Marshall Allen</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000924232">Sun Ra</a> at <a href="/wiki/AllMusic_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="AllMusic (identifier)">AllMusic</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354508#P1728" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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href="/wiki/Denys_Irving" title="Denys Irving">Denys Irving</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2682">Sun Ra</a> at <a href="/wiki/Find_a_Grave" title="Find a Grave">Find a Grave</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354508#P535" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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Volume One">The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_City_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="The Magic City (Sun Ra album)">The Magic City</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Heliocentric_Worlds_of_Sun_Ra,_Volume_Two" title="The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two">The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Strings" title="Strange Strings">Strange Strings</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monorails_and_Satellites" title="Monorails and Satellites">Monorails and Satellites</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Atlantis_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Atlantis (Sun Ra album)">Atlantis</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Is_the_Place_(soundtrack)" title="Space Is the Place (soundtrack)"><i>Space Is the Place</i> (soundtrack)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Space_Is_the_Place_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Space Is the Place (Sun Ra album)">Space Is The Place</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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title="Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold">Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nothing_Is" title="Nothing Is">Nothing Is</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nuits_de_la_Fondation_Maeght_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra album)">Nuits de la Fondation Maeght</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/It%27s_After_the_End_of_the_World" title="It's After the End of the World">It's After the End of the World</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Myth/Out_in_Space" title="Black Myth/Out in Space">Black Myth/Out in Space</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_Egypt_1" title="Live in Egypt 1">Live in Egypt 1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nidhamu" title="Nidhamu">Nidhamu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Horizon_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Horizon (Sun Ra album)">Horizon</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Montreux_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Live at Montreux (Sun Ra album)">Live In Montreux</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unity_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Unity (Sun Ra album)">Unity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_from_Soundscape_(Sun_Ra_album)" title="Live from Soundscape (Sun Ra album)">Live from Soundscape</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I,_Pharaoh" title="I, Pharaoh">I, Pharaoh</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunrise_in_Different_Dimensions" title="Sunrise in Different Dimensions">Sunrise in Different Dimensions</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cosmo_Omnibus_Imagiable_Illusion" title="Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion">Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thunder_of_the_Gods" title="Thunder of the Gods">Thunder of the Gods</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Dedication_(Ahmed_Abdullah_album)" title="Dedication (Ahmed Abdullah album)">Dedication</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Actual_Proof" title="Actual Proof">Actual Proof</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Traveling_the_Spaceways" title="Traveling the Spaceways">Traveling the Spaceways</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tara%27s_Song" title="Tara's Song">Tara's Song</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jazz:_A_Music_of_the_Spirit" title="Jazz: A Music of the Spirit">Jazz: A Music of the Spirit</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Wildflowers:_The_New_York_Loft_Jazz_Sessions" title="Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions">Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a 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aria-labelledby="Marshall_Allen" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks vcard hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Marshall_Allen" title="Template:Marshall Allen"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Marshall_Allen" title="Template talk:Marshall Allen"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Marshall_Allen" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Marshall Allen"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Marshall_Allen" class="fn" 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title="Flow States">Flow States</a></i> (<small>with <a href="/wiki/Roscoe_Mitchell" title="Roscoe Mitchell">Roscoe Mitchell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milford_Graves" title="Milford Graves">Milford Graves</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Scott_Robinson_(jazz_musician)" title="Scott Robinson (jazz musician)">Scott Robinson</a></small>, 2015)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_All-Star_Game_(album)" title="The All-Star Game (album)">The All-Star Game</a></i> (<small>with <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Drake" title="Hamid Drake">Hamid Drake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidd_Jordan" title="Kidd Jordan">Kidd Jordan</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Parker_(musician)" title="William Parker (musician)">William Parker</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Silva" title="Alan Silva">Alan Silva</a></small>, 2000)</li> <li><i><a 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href="/wiki/Polarization_(album)" title="Polarization (album)">Polarization</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hints_on_Light_and_Shadow" title="Hints on Light and Shadow">Hints on Light and Shadow</a></i> (with <a href="/wiki/Sam_Rivers_(jazz_musician)" title="Sam Rivers (jazz musician)">Sam Rivers</a>, 1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Deep_End_Dance" title="In Deep End Dance">In Deep End Dance</a></i> (2002)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sun Ra</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Super-Sonic_Jazz" title="Super-Sonic Jazz">Super-Sonic Jazz</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jazz_by_Sun_Ra" title="Jazz by Sun Ra">Jazz by Sun Ra</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sound_of_Joy" title="Sound of Joy">Sound of Joy</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a 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