"Sun Ra: Art on Saturn" features a vast quantity of album covers that were handcrafted by Ra and his bandmates. A handmade Sun Ra album cover, from Sun Ra: Art on Saturn. Photo: Courtesy of ...

That lingers long after the song is done" As with many cult artists, the back catalogue of Sun Ra is long and varied with large, less than bitesize chunks available for consumption if you so desire.

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 ...

Sun Ra Arkestra, still led by the vibrant-at-98 Marshall Allen, will release new album Living Sky on October 7 via Omni Sound. It was recorded in a single day, June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks ...

This October, Sun Ra Arkestra are releasing their first new studio album since 1999’s A Song for the Sun. The as-yet-untitled record will arrive via Strut. Below, check out the Arkestra’s “Seductive ...

Meshell Ndegeocello worked on a new album inspired by Sun Ra and his 1966 album The Magic City. The new release, Red Hot & Ra : The Magic City, is out April 12 via Red Hot Organization. Ndegeocello ...

The Sun Ra Music Archives is celebrating the centennial of the legendary jazz composer/bandleader’s birth by reissuing a number of his album’s via iTunes. The remastered LPs, which are available today ...

Sun Ra Arkestra, the pioneering jazz collective founded by the late Sun Ra, have announced their first studio album in over 20 years — since 1999’s Song for the Sun. The LP, whose title has yet to be ...

Red Hot, a non-profit organization “dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture,” has announced the third volume of its Red Hot + Ra series of albums paying tribute to free jazz cosmonaut Sun Ra, ...

Meshell Ndegeocello is spearheading the next installment in the ongoing Sun Ra tribute series, Red Hot + Ra, with the LP Red Hot & Ra: The Magic City, out April 12. The LP isn’t a traditional “tribute ...

Ever since Evidence Records began reissuing his myriad releases on CD, the veil of mystery surrounding eccentric visionary jazz man (and self-proclaimed spaceman) Sun Ra has slowly eroded. In some ...

He came from Saturn, on a mission to spread peace through the power of music — or so Sun Ra claimed. "I'm really not a man, you see. I'm an angel," the legendary bandleader said in an interview in the ...