sun ra Archive
14 Mar 2025
Review Roundup: Sun Ra
Okay, so maybe Sun Ra wasn’t from outer space. And yet… maybe he was. But his music was certainly out of this world. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing and […]
05 Mar 2025
Album Review: Sun Ra – Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank
As acclaimed music journalist and critic J.D. Considine emphasizes in his liner notes for Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank, “people were more likely to have heard […]
13 Jun 2024
Album Review: Sun Ra – At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1977-1978
Zev Feldman has applied his “jazz detective” approach to a dizzying array of artists, unearthing previously unheard recordings by landmark artists ranging from Bill Evans to Mel Lewis to Les […]
15 Nov 2018
Hundred-word Reviews, November 2018 Part 1
More hundred-word reviews. If you’ve wandered in here before, you know the drill: they’re all worthwhile and deserve deeper coverage. These ten are all archival, reissue or compilation releases. Oakland […]
18 Apr 2018
Album Review: Sun Ra — Standards
Jazz great Sun Ra (born Herman Blount) has an imposing reputation as the iconoclastic purveyor of wildly unusual and unconventional music. His influence is felt far beyond the confines of […]
07 Mar 2017
Album Review: Sun Ra and His Arkestra — At Inter-Media Arts 1991
Sonic explorer Sun Ra was quite prolific during his lifetime; in fact archivists – those you’d expect to know – can’t accurately tally just how many albums the man released. […]
13 Oct 2016
Album Review: John Cage Meets Sun Ra
A musical summit between avant-garde legends John Cage and Sun Ra is the kind of thing that – had it not actually taken place – history might have had to […]
27 Jan 2016
Hundred-word Reviews January 2016: Blues and Jazz
My week-long march through my backlog continues today with quick looks at five new albums in the jazz and/or blues idioms. No! Wait! Come back! Seriously, these are way cool. […]
11 Jun 2015
Album Reviews: Four MPS Jazz Reissues
MPS is the highly revered label headed by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and several associates. Founded in the mid 1960s, MPS became home for many highly-regarded jazz musicians. Between 1966 and […]
13 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 4
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
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