Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being ...

is meant to protect the land of Egypt and is considered to be the symbol of the Sun God, Ra. However, despite using the symbol, there isn’t any mention of the god in the arc. Blackbeard stands ...

Sun Ra: electric piano, lightning drum, tympani, squeaky door, strings; Marshall Allen: oboe, alto saxophone, strings; John Gilmore: tenor saxophone, strings; Danny ...

Pathways to Unknown Worlds; Extension Out; Cosmo-Media; View from a Mountain Top; Intrinsic Energies; Of Mythic Worlds. Sun Ra: keyboards; John Gilmore: tenor ...

Two nights before this conversation, Sun Ra came to Knoel Scott in a dream. The late jazz composer and cosmic philosopher would have had no trouble finding his lead saxophone player because he was ...

One man who has no negative energy to dump, but knows all about change is Knoel Scott, the saxophonist for one of the oldest and most far-out jazz outfits the world has seen, US band Sun Ra Arkestra.