This essential Sun Ra track is one of his most poetic works. It sounds more like spoken word poetry with a piano backing track than anything else. It’s a fine example of avant garde music of its ...

In the early 1990s, trombonist Jeb Bishop became an essential part of Chicago’s musically and geographically outward-looking ...

When he finally returned to America, he first encountered the music of Sun Ra in a Chicago record store. The storeowner sold Allen one of Ra’s demos, then informed him that the musician was ...

Sun Ra: electric piano, lightning drum, tympani, squeaky door, strings; Marshall Allen: oboe, alto saxophone, strings; John Gilmore: tenor saxophone, strings; Danny ...

Pathways to Unknown Worlds; Extension Out; Cosmo-Media; View from a Mountain Top; Intrinsic Energies; Of Mythic Worlds. Sun Ra: keyboards; John Gilmore: tenor ...

Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of “the tradition” in which the taking of risks is not only welcome but in some measure expected. This album is the most ...

China Cloud’s festival and fundraiser finale is an evening of world class music from TINY PYRAMIDS playing the music of SUN RA (Colin Cowan, Dan Gaucher, Feven Kidane, Gordy Li, Chris Kelly, Tom ...