“The outer space beings are my brothers. They sent me here.” So spoke the composer and pianist Sun Ra, who famously claimed to have traveled from Saturn to bring a message of peace and love to Earth.

For the previous entry in the Red Hot and Ra series, the long-running AIDS activist group Red Hot Organization tapped bassist Meshell Ndegeocello to craft a gripping ...

Even with a few Sun Ra alumni bands traveling the spaceways these days, Ra trumpet player Ahmed Abdullah casts his solar disc into the star stream with his Dispersions of the Spirit of RA group.

Last year, the Kronos Quartet, the long-running experimental ensemble, worked with Ghost Train Orchestra to release a Moondog tribute album. This year, they’re saluting another titan of experimental ...

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 ...

As metro Detroiters, we’re lucky to live in an area with an extensive legacy of innovative music and art in such a wide range of styles. We’re also lucky, however, to have been a stop on the journeys ...

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, ...