"Sun Ra: Art on Saturn" features a vast quantity of album covers that were handcrafted by Ra and his bandmates. A handmade Sun Ra album cover, from Sun Ra: Art on Saturn. Photo: Courtesy of ...

The post Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen Releases Debut Solo Album Recorded Just Days After He Turned 100: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen has released his ...

Sun Ra’s statement, musically and spoken, is that this is a primitive world. Its practices, beliefs, religions, are uneducated, unenlightened, savage, destructive, already in the past. That’s why Sun ...

Meshell Ndegeocello worked on a new album inspired by Sun Ra and his 1966 album The Magic City. The new release, Red Hot & Ra : The Magic City, is out April 12 via Red Hot Organization. Ndegeocello ...

Sun Ra Arkestra, still led by the vibrant-at-98 Marshall Allen, will release new album Living Sky on October 7 via Omni Sound. It was recorded in a single day, June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks ...

Apocalyptic in title, but surprisingly upbeat in sound this 1980s Arkestral artifact makes a welcome return to circulation through John Corbett's Unheard Music Series. The album is actually yet ...

Meshell Ndegeocello is spearheading the next installment in the ongoing Sun Ra tribute series, Red Hot + Ra, with the LP Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City, out April 12. The LP isn’t a traditional “tribute ...

Avant-garde jazz icon Sun Ra is being celebrated not for his other-worldly musical compositions, but for his poetry. In a new album from Omni Sound, titled My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun ...

The album, New Dawn will be released on Feb. 14 A 100-year-old musician will release his first solo music project on Feb. 14. Marshall Allen, the leader of the legendary group Sun Ra Arkestra, has ...

Red Hot, a non-profit organization “dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture,” has announced the third volume of its Red Hot + Ra series of albums paying tribute to free jazz cosmonaut Sun Ra, ...

AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot has announced a new tribute album honoring Sun Ra. Nuclear War, due out May 26, is the first volume in a new Red Hot & Ra series. Listen to the lead single, “Nuke’s ...

Questlove, Dawn Richard and a range of other musicians, writers and critics share their favorites from the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader’s wide-ranging catalog. By Marcus J. Moore ...