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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrating Sun Ra: The cosmic visionary who transformed jazz music : World Cafe : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is ...