For her, reading the book had an effect on the way she wanted to make music going forward. Sun Ra took his music from Birmingham to outer space. For the first time, his band is nominated for a ...

There was a black moon in December.For some who follow such astronomical events, (and for others who await interplanetary travel via "transmoleculisation"), it can signify the dumping of negative ...

Brian Wilson obsessed over his music, but there was one song he grew so attached to that he began to think it was cursed.

New Dawn, despite it being Allen’s official debut, is a wonderful and inspired jazz album that not only fits right in with ...

With the title repeated by female singers including the late June Tyson, the song builds and builds, propelled by percussion, free-jazz saxophones and Sun Ra’s interstellar organ. “He ...

“I was very political, and I didn’t have a classical music background, and I was having a hard time,” he remembers. The late bandleader Sun Ra, in 1979.Credit: Veryl Oakland A life-changing ...

The night before recording their 1978 album Lanquidity, Sun Ra and his Arkestra filmed a brief live spot for Saturday Night Live. Given a window of only four minutes, Sun Ra crammed three classics ...

Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is highlighting a different trailblazer and maverick of Black music history.

Sun Ra Arkestra - Sun Ra has left our planet ... Dominick Farinacci and Friends/Celebrating the Music of Chick Corea and Gary Burton With Taylor Eigsti and Christian Tamburr - A good double ...

The debut solo album from Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen is out ... of passion into curating the tracklist and bringing the music to life. With a band including Michael Ray, Cecil Brooks ...