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	Sun Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sun Ra Sun Ra (May 22, 1914 to May 30, 1993) was an innovative and individual jazz composer and performer who came to be known as much for his bizarre, astrological preaching and philosophy as for his phenomenal musical compositions and performances.
		During his career Sun Ra recorded over one hundred albums, but many of them were printed on microlabels, and his music was largely unknown outside of the live jazz touring circuit.
		Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a documentary film made in 1972 and a feature film entitled Space Is The Place in 1974.
	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/s/su/sun_ra.html (663 words)

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		Sun Ra's years of research in Egyptology, numerology, astrology, spirituality, mathematics, sciences, and the occult combined with performances at southern social clubs, urban dance hall floor shows and strip clubs combine to produce a dramatic multi-media effect that demands the pomposity of Hollywood movie music as an element in his sonic vocabulary.
		Sun Ra was in control of these episodes, cueing the beginnings, pacing durations, rotating players to alternate instruments, clarifying roles, and thereby composing the improvisation (Szwed p.216).
		Sun Ra's use of space, the amount of silence in his music and his willingness to allow non-virtouso passages on peculiar instruments seems to have had an effect on musicians in the AACM of Chicago.
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	Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds: NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN - Record Reviews
		Sun Ra’s afro-futuristic spectacle, the very feature that made him so appealing to post-punk kids like myself, and, in his time, to outsiders like the MC5 and Parliament/Funkadelic, is the element that often made it difficult for jazz artists, critics, and fans to take him seriously.
		And he should, because the Sun Ra Arkestra was certainly one of the most unusual and prolific outfits of the second half of the 20th Century – and I’m of the camp that would argue that they’re also one of the best.
		Ra shows us his tender side with his gorgeous solo piano gem, “Nebulae.” “Dancing in the Sun” is the bebop-flavored icing on the cake.
	www.newyorknighttrain.com /zine/recordreviews/200505/heliocentricworlds.html (844 words)

	Sun Ra - "Helio Centric Worlds Vols. 1 & 2" / "Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3: The Lost Tapes"
		The 50's found Sun Ra and his band playing more or less traditional be-bop and jazz, but Ra was starting to push the boundaries, experimenting with primitive electronics and other unusual instruments, whilst incorporating themes of outer space, ancient Egypt and African history into his music.
		Ra also utilizes reverb effects on this one to create some truly cosmic stretches of sound through the middle, with weird, spacey jangling percussion punctuated with dry and bouncing tuned bongos.
		Then again, Sun Ra and his Arkestra embarked on a six concert series in various colleges around this time, all of which were recorded, but he turned only one album's worth of material over to ESP (the album that would become Nothing Is).
	www.aural-innovations.com /issues/issue31/sunra02.html (1103 words)

	Sun Ra's 'Heliocentric' reissues are out of this world - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Living / Arts - News
		Sun Ra recorded a lot of weird music before he left this planet in 1993.
		It was 40 years ago that Sun Ra entered the studio with his ensemble to begin the ''Heliocentric Worlds" sessions, which took place April 20 and Nov. 16, 1965.
		The ''Heliocentric Worlds" records were an exercise in free-jazz minimalism marked by the occasional outbursts of blaring horns.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/05/29/sun_ras_heliocentric_reissues_are_out_of_this_world?mode=PF (766 words)

	village voice > music > by Gary Giddins
		Ra, often characterized as a trickster for his extraterrestrial, occultist, costumed, showbiz blarney, which he believed in no less sincerely than did Cage in the musical uses of the I Ching, never allowed himself to be seduced by the sound of silence.
		Sun Ra was much ridiculed for his pitch-challenged musicians and ensembles, but a cursory sampling of his work (including 21 titles on Evidence) reveals that he could be as in tune as he wanted.
		Sun Ra, who tended to go normal with a big band, was at his best with the kind of 10-piece group heard on When Angels Speak of Love and on the '50s recordings included in Greatest Hits, a fine compilation, though the absence of Julian Priester's "Soft-Talk" and personnel information is annoying.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0041/giddins.shtml (1270 words)

	[one final note \| summer news] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		During the dedication of the mural, she explained that the centerpiece of this mosaic tile mural art piece is a full standing image of Sun Ra with a keyboard across his chest symbolizing his main instrument of performance and his trememdous volume of compositions.
		To the left and right of Sun Ra are Egyptian designs and hieroglyphics that empahsize his interest in Egyptian mythology that had a great effect on his music and compositions.
		Saturn was the label that Sun Ra created for the release of his music under the terms and conditions of his creative control, which he did not receive from commercial record labels at all times.
	www.networkarts.org /news/Sun_Ra.htm (464 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1: Music: Sun Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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		Ra is not about freedom, he is about structure and control, even on an album as seemingly free as this.
		Ra's tendency at the time was to "improvise with the Arkestra", to select soloists by a system of hand signs and to greatly limit how they blew and the textures they used.
	www.amazon.ca /Heliocentric-Worlds-Sun-Ra-Vol/dp/B00000JNA2 (1040 words)

	:§: Ventrilocution :§: Reviews, Live Reports, Interviews, Calendar - Portugal - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Be it as it may, improvisational or not, to describe Heliocentric Worlds as “free” music rings true, as it is a vehicle driven almost exclusively by systematic atonality and dissonance alone, rather than by adherence to a series of well defined musical rules.
		As for the third volume, which is not an independent work in itself because it was recorded in the same session as the second volume, it also demonstrates a more focused facet of the artist’s music, one that combines unbridled psychedelia, “free-jazz” (using the term loosely here) aesthetics and rhythmically consistent patterns.
		Sun Ra never completely relinquishes the atonal nature of the music but it does render it a bit less complicated to absorb, which can be seen, as far as I am concerned, as an achievement rather than a surrendering of the hard-edged experimentalism of the first volume.
	www.ventrilocution.net /v2/reviews/sunra1.shtml (529 words)

	Biography of Sun Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sun Ra (May 22, 1914 to May 30, 1993) was an innovative and individual jazz composer, bandleader and piano and synthesizer player, who came to be known as much for preaching his bizarre cosmic philosophy as for his phenomenal musical compositions and performances.
		In this era, Ra was among the first of any musicians to make extensive use of synthesizers and other various electronic instruments.
		During their third period, beginning in the 1970s and onward, Sun Ra and the Arkestra settled down into a more conventional method (though still highly eclectic and energetic), and Ra took a liking to the films of Walt Disney.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /r/Ra_Sun.html (689 words)

	Atlantis
		Captured during one of the most adventurous periods for Sun Ra, Atlantis features the orchestral perfection of the best big bands of the century-and then proceeds towards mutirhythmic explosions of intensity, all of it couched in Sun Ra's mixture of interglactic mysticism and heaping doses of experiments in tone, tempo, and texture.
		Heliocentric Worlds is comprised of smaller pieces that flow into one another creating in effect one long suite.
		Sun Ra is the apex of Avant-Garde and Experimental Jazz.
	music.wenchoice.com /info/B0000014KI/Atlantis.html (953 words)

	The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 : Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sun Ra wasn´t just a marvelous eccentric, he was just plain marvelous.
		The various pieces comprising Heliocentric Worlds flow into one another to make what is in effect a large suite, and what a journey it is. Complex, dynamic, exciting, abrasive but never boring, this album has to be heard to be appreciated, words are impossibly limited.
		The kind of loyalty and practice schedule that Sun Ra demanded from his musicians was necessary to make an album this daring and complex.
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	Sun Ra - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow @ Soundbug
		I'm not exactly sure what Sun Ra intended with these pieces but they had no emotional impact on me, nor did they even have any kind of rhythmic or hypnotic effect say like `Fire' by the Third Ear Band from their elements album.
		I agree that Sun Ra was a great musician and composer who made an important contribution to the avant guard in general, but these particular recordings are not among his finest achievements.
		The composer in question is, Sun Ra, one of the most forward looking musical talents of the 20th century.
	www.soundbug.com /asin/B0000014JO (964 words)

	Browse by Artist: RA, SUN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ra's anthem for the decade, a piece that perfectly reflected certain apocalyptic aspects of his philosophy and his underlying quest for a better future.
		Sun Ra existed in a universe ahead of the rest and Nothing Is may be all the necessary evidence of his outsider genius.
		It is an unprecedented look at the inner and outer worlds of sound; a magic mixture of the exotic and the mundane, the supernatural and the material, the solar wind beating against the rings of Saturn and the gentle spring breeze blowing a nearby oak tree.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/ra.sun.html (3961 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
		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)

	The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 (see 1965 in music) album by the jazz musician Sun Ra.
		The three albums of the Heliocentric Worlds series (Volumes One, Two and Three) are widely considered Sun Ra's greatest work, with avant-garde and free jazz flourishes rounding out his always eccentric and always far-out musical themes.
		Sun Ra - Piano, Arranger, Celeste, Cello, Keyboards, Marimba, Tympani [Timpani], Back Cover, Electronic Celeste
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/t/th/the_heliocentric_worlds_of_sun_ra__volume_one.html (121 words)

	Sun Ra : The Solar Myth Approach, Vols. 1-2 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		These two discs from Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra are not, as their title suggests, parts of a singular or continuous work.
		Despite the claim that these sides were taped in New York City at Sun Studios, Ra discographer Robert L. Campbell notes that by the time these tracks were documented, the Arkestra had ended its N.Y.C. residency and returned to Philadelphia.
		Volume One ranges from the atonal sparseness of the keyboard solo "Seen III Took 4" to the equally intimate ensemble work of "Adventures of Bugs Hunter" -- which in true Ra fashion doesn't even feature the musician.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1576020,00.html (413 words)

	ALLEGRO MUSIC - Order Page
		These recordings brought Sun Ra to the forefront of the free improvisation movement as a leader and an innovator.
		Heliocentric Worlds Volume 1 was included in Vibe’s 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century.
		Sun Ra was elected to the Down Beat Hall of Fame in 1983
	www.allegro-music.com /online_catalog.asp?sku_tag=ESP34026 (176 words)

	Financial Library - Sun Ra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sun Ra's musical development can be loosely divided into three periods: the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s and later.
		Sun Ra formed an independent label in the mid-50s (along with his business partner Alton Abraham), generally known as Saturn, though (as with the Arkestra) there were several variants upon the name.
		Sun Ra was personally responsible for the vast majority of the constant changes in the Arkestra's lineup.
	www.financiallibrary.com /sun-ra.htm (3667 words)

	Ronnie Boykins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ronnie Boykins (1935 - April 20, 1980) was a jazz bassist most noted for his work with the Sun Ra Arkestra in the 1950s and 1960s.
		This is especially pronounced on the key recordings from 1965 (The Magic City, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two) where the intertwining lines of Boykins' bass and Ra's electronic keyboards provide the cohesion.
		Boykins also recorded with Rahsaan Roland Kirk on his famous Rip, Rig and Panic album.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronnie_Boykins (203 words)

	WOEBOT: Un Ra.
		Ra ended up recording with Geerken's friend Salah Ragab on a number of occasions most notably on "The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus The Cairo Jazz Band." Ragab was a jazz afficionado, drummer and percussionist and was formerly in charge of the Military Music Department of the Egyptian Army.
		It was one of those iconic moments, embodying the spirit of the ESP label, where Sun Ra and other Jazz heavyweights like Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler and Alan Silva rubbed shoulders with Arty-Primitive Garage Punkers like The Fugs and The Godz.
		Ra proceeded to undertake an entire tour as "The Disney Odyssey Arkestra", playing themes from the Disney songbook, and Walt rose to prominence among Ra's pantheon of the divinely inspiring alongside Fletcher Henderson.
	www.woebot.com /movabletype/archives/000082.html (4729 words)

	The Best Jazz on CD
		This material, along with alternate takes, sometimes including separate vocal and instrumental versions of a tune, is also available on the Columbia Jazz Masterpieces volumes V, 6, and 7, which completists may want, although the sound quality of the JSP set is far superior.
		These three volumes contain much of material from the all star sessions that made up the LP boxed set.
		The first volume is Hampton's pick of his favorites from these sessions.
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		Like all Bellrays albums, In the Light of the Sun revolves around the prodigious vocal chops of Lisa Kekaula, the former jazz singer whose intense gospel-soul delivery is expertly matched by the band's riotous, guitar-driven delivery.
		Do us a favor: give the new Clinic record a few spins before you judge it, OK? 'Cause while Walking with Thee's repetitive, spooky charms are not as immediately apparent as those of their EP collection and first album, with Thee Clinic truly come into their own.
		Sun Ra, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol.
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	JazzBeat Nevada 5/22/06
		Setting aside the fact he claimed to be from Saturn, Sun Ra was one of the most distinctive, visionary artists in jazz.
		Ra was one of the first jazz leaders to use two basses, to employ the electric bass, to play electronic keyboards, to use extensive percussion and polyrhythms, to explore modal music and to pioneer solo and group freeform improvisations.
		Sun Ra was one of the great modern visionaries: he not only had a dream, but lived it to the full for over 40 years.
	jazzinternet.com /vegasjazz/22May06.htm (5394 words)

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		Although Sun Ra's work can be seen as one vast petition to get the Black Star Liner refitted as a space craft to take his people home, it's real impact was always going to be with the dreamers back here on earth.
		Gigging with the likes of the MC5 in the '60s helped to establish a creative and downright political coalition between wild white guitar and fl free jazz that continues to this day, thanks to the likes of Uncle Thurston and everybody's favourite Monster Truck fan, Henry Rollins.
		This was because they were a source of an echo I heard in the likes of The Pop Group and A R Kane, and I didn't fathom how important it was to me until I heard Sun Ra, Albert Ayler and John Coltrane.
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