Sun Ra
Sun Ra (Le Sony'r Ra, c. 1914–1993) was one of the most original and prolific musicians in jazz history, moving from Fletcher Henderson-style swing to free jazz and beyond, sometimes in the same song. Claiming to have originated on Saturn rather than Alabama, where he was actually born, he built a cosmology around the African-American experience, ancient Egyptian mythology, and outer space, using the Arkestra — his large, continuously evolving ensemble — as the vehicle for an ongoing creative experiment that lasted nearly fifty years.
In the archive
- Atlantis Impulse! — AS-9239
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy and Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow Evidence — ECD 22036-2
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 Get Back — GET 1004
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 2 ESP-Disk' — 1014
- The Solar-Myth Approach, Vol. 1 BYG Records — 529.341
- The Solar-Myth Approach, Vol. 2 BYG Records — 529.341