About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Sun Ra Orchestra members, Sun Ra albums, Sun Ra discography, Charles Davis, Unheard Music Series, Interstellar Low Ways, John Gilmore, Super-Sonic Jazz, Julian Priester, Other Planes of There, The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, Jazz in Silhouette, Space Is the Place, Strange Strings, Fate in a Pleasant Mood, Ronnie Boykins, Angels and Demons at Play, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One, Secrets of the Sun, The Magic City, Atlantis, We Travel the Space Ways, Marshall Allen, Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow, Jazz by Sun Ra, Laurdine "Pat" Patrick, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy, The Nubians of Plutonia, Phil Cohran, James Spaulding, Purple Night, When Sun Comes Out, Bad and Beautiful, Horo Records, Holiday for Soul Dance, The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two, Eddie Gale, Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth, Clifford Jarvis, When Angels Speak of Love, Sound of Joy, Monorails and Satellites, Hours After, Victor Sproles, Mayan Temples, Blue Delight, Deep Purple, Lex Humphries, Reflections in Blue, Sound Sun Pleasure!!, Lanquidity, Leo Records, Ahmed Abdullah, Impressions of a Patch of Blue, June Tyson, El Saturn Records, Visions. Excerpt: Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 - May 30, 1993) was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a 1979 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. "Of all the jazz musicians, Sun Ra was probably the most controversial," critic Scott Yanow said, because of Sun Ra's eclectic music and unorthodox lifestyle. Claiming that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn, Sun Ra developed a complex persona using "cosmic" philosophies and lyrical...
