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.

Without the jazz musician, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra, the music industry would look and sound somewhat different. Countless mainstream artists have been inspired by his boundlessness and his ability ...

Sun Ra, the Afro-Futurist bandleader and intergalactic visionary who based his Arkestra in Philadelphia for decades, is heading to PBS. Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, the Christine Turner-directed ...

Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan ...

Sun Ra Meets Pierre Boulez album review by Daniel Mège, published on. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

From swing to bebop to free jazz, Sun Ra bridged myriad musical styles to form his own avant-garde sound. With his ever-evolving collective, the Sun Ra Arkestra, he stretched the boundaries of jazz ...