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	Sun Ra: A Soundtrack for Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sun Ra’s music could be confounding, but that was nothing compared to the obfuscations that shrouded the man himself.
		Sun Ra considered himself a "spiritual being" rather than a human, and often claimed he wasn’t "born" in the traditional sense.
		Sun Ra, according to his biographer, John F. wed, called his Arkestra members "tone scientists" rather than musicians and taught them that there were an infinite number of notes between C and D, as if sound, like space, was always expanding.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/sun_ra_991014.html (835 words)

	Sun Ra
		Sun Ra can be thought of as one of these twentieth-century identities, yet it is clear that he does not view himself or his music as a harbinger of cultural decay, but rather he sees his mission as the enlightenment and betterment of all humanity.
		Sun Ra sees that the way for humanity to improve itself is "to recognize the myth and become part of my mythocracy, instead of their theocracies and their democracies and the other -ocracies they got, they can become of a magic myth, the magic touch of the mythocracy" (ibid.).
		Sun Ra has often spoken of the importance of ancient Egyptian civilization, and states that it should not be thought of as something that is of the past, but as a civilization which still has an affect on contemporary life.
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /staff/martinelli/SunRa.htm (18846 words)

	Sun Ra
		Ra plays synthesizers throughout, wheeling his way out of codified song structures into crashing, swirling, pummeling electronic jams that sound like nothing so much as satellites burning on contact with the atmosphere.
		Sun Ra has said that each of his recordings is like an issue of a cosmic newspaper.
		Piano and synth switch-hit in the large-group works, and it quickly becomes plain that Sun Ra was one of the few people who have successfully translated their piano virtuosity to the synthesizer, rather than using it as texture or background.
	www.birdhouse.org /words/scot/sunra.html (1022 words)

	Vapour Trails - Venues and the Artists that play them and reviews of live music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sun Ra formed his own record label Saturn to distribute their music and one album Sun Song debuted on Chicago's tiny Transition label.
		From 1966 Sun Ra and the Arkestra were the Monday night houseband at Slug's on the Lower East Side where it was often hard to distinquish where the band ended, the tiny stage and club filled with a Morrocan marketplace of instruments and colourful dress.
		Sun Ra was adding more keyboard combinations to his sound including lurching space organ, droning clavoline and rattling piano forays and finally moog synthesiser.
	iowrock.net /vapourtrails/pages/artists/getArtists.asp?ArtistID=68&... (1078 words)

	Sun Ra
		Throughout the 60's Sun Ra continued to record for his own deliberately poorly distributed Saturn Records label, and also on various European labels, while touring widely and continuing to spread the fame of his live performances.
		In recent years Sun Ra has steadily returned to the music of the near past - the standards and jazz classics he grew up with - although it is all filtered through his delighfully off center perspective.
		Sun Ra's music transcends earthbound limitations by riding the flights of imagination, and his message is that all of us are free to ride those flights with him if we have the precision and discipline to do so.
	www.elrarecords.com /sunra.html (748 words)

	Sun Ra
		Sun Ra, keyboards; John Gilmore, tenor sax and clarinet; Pat Patrick, James Spaulding and Marshall Allen, alto sax and flute; Ronnie Boykins, bass; Ahmed Abdullah, trumpet; Danny Davis, alto sax; Akh Tal Ebal and Kwame Hadi, trumpet; Clifford Jarvis, drums; James Jacson, reeds; June Tyson, vocals.
		Ra plays clavioline in addition to piano, and the effect is rather cheesy but at least it's something different.
		Sun Ra mostly confines himself to playing rising tones (as on Space Is), and Gilmore's sax is only heard on the scattershot "Cosmo-Media." Throughout, the best feature is Boykins on bass, but that's unlikely to sustain your interest.
	www.warr.org /sunra.html (2505 words)

	Sun Ra Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		For a comprehensive, integrated discography of Sun Ra you should refer to a copy of Robert Campbell's definitive The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra, published by Cadence Books.
		Hartmut Geerken, Sun Ra discography (1982), and correspondence with Geerken
		Julian Vein, Sun Ra on Saturn and Savoy, Jazz Journal, Nov. 1967, and correspondence with Vein
	www.dpo.uab.edu /~moudry/discintr.htm (401 words)

	Sun Ra
		Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn, ages ago, and spent some time on Earth using the power of music to demonstrate the virtues of discipline and harmony to members of this planet.
		Ra utilizes "exotic" instrumentation such as tympani, bells, and percussion in what has to be called a brilliant way, with saxes, trumpets, flutes, and Ra's own fractured and always creative piano playing meshing into a perfect, smooth, and lovely conception.
		Ra was soon consolidating jazz, African, soul, and the whole of the Universe into classic recordings like My Brother The Wind Volume 2 (from 1969) which has been described as "spaced-out barbecue jazz" and which sounds to me like a brilliant composer working in the Jimmy Smith/Larry Young style of soul-jazz organ playing.
	www.furious.com /perfect/sunra.html (2217 words)

	Jazz \| All About Jazz
		Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago.
		Out of disgust for the commercial scene Sun Ra also created his own record company, Saturn, through which he released a series of all-time masterpieces which were harder to find in his own day than they are now.
		Saturn releases were hard-to-find (unless one had the luck to attend a Sun Ra concert, where they were available at intermissions), but the Evidence reissues of many of the best of them are in every record store worthy of the name.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /bios/srbio.htm (619 words)

	SATURN: Sun Ra and the Arkestra
		This Web Site, located in Sun Ra's home town, is dedicated to sharing information about the life, music, and world view of Sun Ra, in addition to transmitting some of the excitement and fun associated with the larger than life person known to Earthlings as Sun Ra.
		A section has been added for articles on Sun Ra, the Arkestra, and free jazz, another for bibliographies of articles on Sun Ra and the Arkestra, and a section devoted to discographies of Sun Ra, Arkestra members, and other practitioners of free jazz.
		Information on The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra, Robert Campbell's definitive discography of Sun Ra is available on Saturn Web.
	www.dpo.uab.edu /~moudry (785 words)

	Sun Ra MP3 Downloads - Sun Ra Music Downloads - Sun Ra Music Videos
		In addition, Ra documented his music in very erratic fashion on his Saturn label, generally not listing recording dates and giving inaccurate personnel information, so one could not really tell how advanced some of his innovations were.
		Near the end of his life, Ra was featuring plate twirlers and fire eaters in his colorful show as a sort of Ed Sullivan for the 1980s.
		Ra, who recorded for more than a dozen labels, has been well served by Evidence's extensive repackaging of many of his Saturn dates, which have at last been outfitted with correct dates and personnel details.
	www.mp3.com /sun-ra/artists/95673/biography.html (468 words)

	Sun Ra: Space Is The Place
		Ra's lifetime vision of expanding the cosmic consciousness of African Americans was superimposed on the street life of the early seventies Oakland 'hood.
		Ra's logos, as transmitted to Jimmy Fey via a perspex "translation helmet" is a cryptic challenge to the status quo of the Overseer: "I am the altered destiny...
		Sun Ra's constant motivation was force people to look beyond the stereotypical role they had been given and create new identities for themselves - just as he, Herman Poole "Sunny" Blount from Alabama, had done.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/media/SpaceisthePlace.htm (2732 words)

	Sun Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sun Ra f all the jazz musicians, Sun Ra was probably the most controversial.
		Leading a big band (which he called the Arkestra) in Chicago, Ra started off playing advanced bop but was early on open to the influences of other cultures and experimenting with primitive electric keyboards and playing free long before the avant-garde got established.
		Ra, who recorded a pair of fine solo piano albums for JAI, has been well served by Evidence's extensive repackaging of many of his Saturn dates which have at last been outfitted with correct dates and personnel details.
	www.alamhof.org /sunra.htm (399 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Sun Ra
		Sun Ra This nOde last updated April 11th, 2004 and is permanently morphing...
		Even though he was always ready to tweak jazz into unknown regions, Sun Ra's early sides as a leader (on the Chicago-based Delmark imprint) were standard modal-swing dates fueled by the collective sensibilities of the band.
		Improvisations and songs by Sun Ra and Cage's indeterminate performance vocals based on strict composition methods are contrasted and find a common meeting ground as, toward the end of the session, they play together.
	fusionanomaly.net /sunra.html (1269 words)

	Sun Ra - Brotha From Another Planet
		The film is shot at the foot of the pyrymids in Egypt and consists mostly of the Arkastra in performance and Sun Ra explaining his philosophies.
		Sun Ra goes on further to explain that Blacks will never truly be free untill they return to the planet Saturn because it is their "natural home"
		I think that it would be fair to say that Sun Ra was an inovator of the first degree and that he is a pioneer of certan themes that were later an influence on people like George Clinton and Miles Davis.
	www.soul-patrol.com /jazz/sun_ra.htm (794 words)

	Slought Foundation: "An Interview with Sun Ra (1990)" with Ra, Davis, et al.
		Sun Ra, among the most unusual composers in the history of jazz, was born Herman "Sonny" Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914.
		In 1970 Sun Ra moved to Philadelphia, where he continued recording and performing for a small but loyal jazz and rock audience until his death in May 1993.
		The Sun Ra Arkestra continues to tour and record under the directon of the Arkestra's longtime alto player, Marshall Allen.
	slought.org /content/11225 (588 words)

	Ephrata/F-Ra-Ta
		In a word, Ra was drawn to esoteric knowledge, a kind of parallel tradition to orthodox Christianity, a world of excluded knowledge and hidden teachings: mysteries revealed, intricate correspondences between individual and cosmos, body and spirit, a sense that everything is connected and ordered, provided one has the tools and sensibility to decode the world.
		Sun Ra had been both pushed out of Alabama and pulled toward Chicago, making an exodus to the known realities of southern Jim Crow to the unknowns of a northern city promoted by fl newspapers like the Chicago Defender as a kind of African American Promised Land.
		Ra set about constructing a counter-myth to the orthodox mythology of the Bible, one that recognized the glories of ancient Egypt but also posited a liberating future promised by the Space Age.
	www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeV/Arkestra.htm (8389 words)

	Sun Ra Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		When suddenly a familiar melody breaks through the noise, it's like watching the sun come up after a long night alone: first there is darkness, and then singer June Tyson takes the lead on "Space is the Place" over a roiling sea of voices, drums, and synthesizer squawls in burly, rocking rhythm.
		Ra believed he was throwing a life-line to people-first African-Americans, and then anybody who would listen-and the classic chant, "What Planet is This" is the final call.
		Sun Ra and His Solar Myth Arkestra: Life Is Splendid NER 3026 (Ann Arbor Festival 1972)
	resodance.com /mesechabe/ra_rev.html (505 words)

	Sun Ra Bio
		Sun Ra (1914-1993) -- at times seemingly controversial, weird, unpatriotic -- was a major innovator who made use of mythology and costumes, looking back on ancient Egypt and forward with a galactic narrative.
		Alton Abraham, the Arkestra's manager and head of Sun Ra's record label, was affiliated with this group, as were Lawrence Allen, T. Mims, Sr., and others who would later provide financial backing for recordings.
		Sun Ra (sometimes Le Sun Ra) was technically his stage name.
	www.nathanielturner.com /sunrabio.htm (1199 words)

	Sun Ra Portal on PopTopix - More pictures, mp3 music and lyrics in our links than in any webring.
		Sun Ra Portal on PopTopix - More pictures, mp3 music and lyrics in our links than in any webring.
		Sun Ra, the Arkestra, and Free Jazz information and news.
		The pirAnts have established a colony on Planet Sun Ra to celebrate the wisdom of the musical artist.
	sunra.poptopix.com (362 words)

	Sun Ra- Space is the Place
		This is the 'reactionary' side of Sun Ra- the fact that he voted for George Bush and Nixon and was going to vote for Ross Perot.
		Part of it that was that Ra was embarassing to the degree that the things he did looked crazy or like they were a put-on.
		With Sun Ra, whenever he reached a half-tone, he holds it on the quarter tones not as it's written because he was sure that Kern wanted quarter tones.
	www.furious.com /perfect/sunra2.html (3745 words)

	Out of Egypt: Sun Ra Arkestra
		Sun Ra Arkestra The Sun Ra Arkestra presents a night of eclectic, outrageous, mystifying and powerful jazz under the direction of Marshall Allen.
		I have a friend who saw Sun Ra and the Arkestra play about ten years ago.
		So when it was over and Sun Ra had left, the crowd stuck around for a while and talked.
	donovan.covblogs.com /archives/007521.html (271 words)

	Sun Ra Discography & Biography, Sun Ra Albums & CDs
		Sun Ra (Herman Sonny Blount) was born on May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, AL (Although, one of his many eccentricities was the claim that he was from the planet Saturn).
		Sun Ra's earliest music work was as a pianist, arranger and composer with Fess Wheatley and Oliver Bibb in the Chicago area in the mid 30s.
		In the early 50s Sun Ra began to lead his own small groups, and by 1953 he had formed a 10-piece big band, the Arkestra.
	www.prex.com /biography/Sun-Ra-discography.html (1037 words)

	WhosWho Chicago: Sun Ra : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
		Sun Ra moved north during the '30s first to Washington, and eventually to Chicago (where he wrote and performed music far more traditional than the trippy space music for which he is now remembered).
		His band, the Sun Ra Arkestra still tours under the direction of Marshall Allen (a worthy sight if you can catch them!).
		There was a tribute to Sun Ra in Chicago at the 1998 Chicago Jazz Festival, featuring Hoyle, Priester, Davis, Scales, Evans, Barry and percussionist Jim Herndon, as well as pianist Jodie Christian and baritone saxman Mwata Bowden.
	centerstage.net /music/whoswho/SunRa.html (320 words)

	Plexifilm -- New DVD Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		-Sun Ra Science fiction, blaxploitation, cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra returns to earth in his music-powered space ship to battle for the future of the fl race and offer an "alter-destiny" to those who would join him.
		After having traveled through space in a yellow spaceship propelled by music, Sun Ra finds a planet he believes could serve as a new home for the fl race.
		It is at once a platform for Sun Ra's radical racial philosophies, an indictment of the government's policies in Vietnam-era U.S., cult camp flick, sci-fi movie and concert film with unforgettable performances by the Intergalactic Solar Arkestra.
	www.plexifilm.com /space.html (434 words)

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