Over at MOCAD tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 23, they are hosting the distinguished writer (and professor, and associate dean at Northwestern University) Huey Copeland for a lecture on Sun Ra. It starts at 7 ...

Sun Ra and his Arkestra perform with a steel sculpture on September 23, 1978, at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Leni Sinclair/Getty Images) The Sun Ra Arkestra comes to San Francisco this ...

As metro Detroiters, we’re lucky to live in an area with an extensive legacy of innovative music and art in such a wide range of styles. We’re also lucky, however, to have been a stop on the journeys ...

For decades, American jazz saxophonist Knoel Scott has been honoring Herman “Sonny” Blount, aka Sun Ra, the composer, keyboardist and founder of the ethereal Sun Ra Arkestra. “Either the spirit is ...

The Philadelphia bandleader didn't always connect with traditional jazz audiences, but he found a second home doing so in Baltimore. A new double album revisit a show he and his "Arkestra" gave there.

CHICAGO — Patrons of South Side jazz clubs in the 1950s might have noticed something a bit different about pianist Sun Ra’s big band — slowly at first, then all at once. Their sounds became more ...

Sun Ra, the trailblazing jazz musician, poet, and pioneer of the Afrofuturism movement, was also a utopian—both in outer space and here on earth. Known for a persona that mixed cosmic references, ...

On April 10, 1991, the night of this concert at Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, Long Island, Sun Ra was near the apogee of his earthly transit. Having led his transformative iterations of his ...