Sun Ra’s concept of “alter destiny” was his way of changing humanity Sun Ra wanted to change humanity with his concept of the “alter destiny.” How Sun Ra created his own record label, Saturn Records ...

'Sun Ra and the Roots of Afrofuturism' is the next project from Nelson's Firelight Films. By Rebecca Sun Senior Editor, Diversity & Inclusion Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, whose Attica is currently ...

Sun Ra, the trailblazing jazz musician, poet, and pioneer of the Afrofuturism movement, was also a utopian—both in outer space and here on earth. Known for a persona that mixed cosmic references, ...

PBS’s ‘American Masters’ presents a tribute to the eccentric, virtuosic pianist and composer, who combined swing with the avant-garde and Afrofuturism.

Hills hit up the annual Noise Pop festival (February 19-March 1) to sample the indie music feast. Check out our full coverage ...

Without the jazz musician, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra, the music industry would look and sound somewhat different. Countless mainstream artists have been inspired by his boundlessness and his ability ...

Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan ...

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 from ...

Sun Ra was many things. As a pianist, composer, inventor, bandleader, philosopher and a revolutionary, Ra’s creation knew no bounds; even still, three decades after his ascent to the stars, his ...

Sun Ra stated that he wanted to create otherworldly emotions on this album. These emotions are “disguised as jazz,” to quote one of Ra’s poems. The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, recorded in 1961, ...

The Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra (aka Sun Ra House), has been added to the city's Register of Historic Places, Pitchfork reports and The FADER has confirmed. Its landmarking will ensure it is ...

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 ...