The Philadelphia bandleader didn't always connect with traditional jazz audiences, but he found a second home doing so in Baltimore. A new double album revisit a show he and his "Arkestra" gave there.

The Great American Music Hall has long served as an anchor of San Francisco's music scene. As jazz bookings here are infrequent, it was great news when the venue welcomed back the Sun Ra Arkestra for ...

This video captures innovative jazz composer, bandleader and pianist/synthesizer player Sun Ra's two live concert performances in East Berlin in 1986. Claiming that he was of the "Angel Race" and not ...

Irreversible Entanglements are a vital component of the 21st-century's jazz renaissance. Fiery, spiritual, combative, they're fronted by poet/musician Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), whose seemingly ...

Sun Ra, born Herman Poole Blount, was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his "cosmic" philosophy of music and life. A pioneer in afrofuturism, ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is going to review a newly released recording of a concert he attended in 1978 by pianist Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Kevin says the colorful ...