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Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra: Hawk Meets Sun Ra (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music January 10, 09

Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra has been Denmark's answer to Austria's Vienna Art Orchestra led by Matthias Rüegg...

Sun Ra: The Order of the Pharaonic Jesters (Rating: 69/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

After World War II, pianist Sonny Blount moved from Alabama to Chicago, where he pursued Egyptology, which had captiv...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JAZZ EXOTICA

Exotica is armchair tourism. We experience foreign strangeness without the hassles of leaving home. No passports, imm...

Sun Ra (featuring John Gilmore): Future (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 26, 08

For some 40 years, from 1953 to Sun Ra's death in 1993, tenorist John Gilmore was primarily a devoted and key member ...

Sun Ra: Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus (Rating: 59/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Unskilled, impoverished, equal parts showman, shaman and charlatan, Sun Ra was to jazz what low-budget filmmaker Ed W...

Sun Ra: Medicine for a Nightmare (Rating: 69/100) posted in Music November 29, 07

During a mid-1950s concert for mental patients at a Chicago hospital, a chronic catatonic rose from the floor, made h...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Sun Ra: Enlightenment (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 23, 08

The '70s Impulse vinyl reissues of Sun Ra's obscure Saturn recordings, and their later reappearance starting in the '...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE SONNYS OF JAZZ

Jazz Quiz: What do these names have in common? Saul Berman Herman Blount Conrad Yeatis Clark William Criss C...

Sun Ra: Brainville (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music December 10, 08

When a Sun Ra composition doesn't head directly into the land of the freaky, the spacey, the alter-destiny (which I t...

Sun Ra Arkestra: Prelude to a Kiss (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 30, 08

As it turns out, a rather strange, indefinable period in jazz history that lasted from the mid- to late '80s allowed ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MODERN BIG BANDS

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Sun Ra: Nuclear War (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Did Sun Ra really think he could get this song played on the radio? The same two bars and two chords repeated over an...

Sun Ra: Easy Street (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 22, 08

Sun Ra (Sonny Blount) left us earthlings a vast discography from his earliest days through his last mortal years work...

Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 17, 08

Well maybe not a real knife fight. This is the Internet, after all, and the bloodshed is only virtual. But if th...

New Jazz Bios: From Buddy Bolden to Sun Ra posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 15, 09

Hidden away in the inner recesses of jazz.com is our ambitious Encyclopedia Project. Dozens of contributors have b...

Ahmed Abdullah's Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra: We Travel the Spaceways (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music June 11, 09

Trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah is as qualified as any musician living to produce a tribute to Sun Ra, having recorded some ...

Ra, Sun (Herman Poole Blount) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08

The greatest of all jazz eccentrics, Sun Ra inspires both fascination and controversy. The bandleader's singular, cos...

Jarvis, Clifford (Osborne) posted in Encyclopedia August 20, 08

Drummer Clifford Jarvis is best known for his two decades with one group: the Sun Ra Arkestra. Many may be surprised ...

Ray, Michael posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ray, Michael, trumpet, vocalist, composer and producer; b. Trenton, NJ, 24 December 1952. Ray grew up in Trenton, ...

Abdullah, Ahmed (Leroy Bland) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Abdullah, Ahmed [Leroy Bland] , trumpeter, composer; b. Harlem, NY, 10 May 1947. His father was Lubia Bland (died 10/...

Scott, Knoel Ajiboye (Noel Scott) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Scott, Knoel Ajiboye [Noel Scott], alto saxophonist; b. Baltimore, MD, 18 July 1956. He's the son of Brooks and Katha...

Gale, Eddie posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Gale, Eddie, trumpeter, composer, educator; b. Brooklyn, NY, 15 August 1941. Gale's musical career began in Brooklyn,...

Geerken, Hartmut posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Geerken, Hartmut, pianist, percussionist, author; b. Stuttgart, Germany, 15 January 1939. His father was Heinrich Aug...

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