Back in the late sixties, when rock musicians started to explore more complex things, the music became at the same time more interesting and, well, complicated at the same time. It was the advent of ...

Jazz has a storied history of hosting any number of iconoclasts. But few can compete with the late Sun Ra for sheer brazen originality and prodigious recorded output. The man born as Herman Blount ...

As one would hope from a release claiming certified lineage to the source, Music for the 21st Century finds the Sun Ra Arkestra still playing swing mechanique, angular outside freestyle, comet tail ...

Maybe Sun Ra really did come from Saturn. It's certain that the jazz scene has never experienced anyone like him before, during or after his time on our planet. Five new representative recordings ...

The Sun Ra Arkestra will revisit some of the late jazz legend’s classic compositions on the outfit’s new album Swirling, their first studio LP in over 20 years.. Under the direction of ...

Jazz and Palm Springs’ mid-century modern aesthetic Jazz and mid-century modernism have long influenced each other, both epitomizing experimentation in art, culture and design.