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 ...

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 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 ...

On April 10, 1991, the night of this concert at Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, Long Island, Sun Ra was near the apogee of his earthly transit. Having led his transformative iterations of his ...

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 ...

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his ...