Shocking Secrets About Sun Ra's Genius Nobody Tells You

For the visionary composer, keyboardist, philosopher, bandleader and intergalactic traveler known as Sun Ra, the planet was a way station, and jazz music was both a vessel and a channel.
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[@arthurroschbooksandmusic7700]

It must have been thirty years ago I took a date to the movies to see Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place". A feature length film. HIlarious and goofy simultaneously. Aside from the music itself, humor is a strong element in Sun's ouevre.

[@FlintFandango]

Superb! Now, I´m looking forward to a Pharoah Sanders video in the future, because it´d fit perfectly.

[@tylerarnott1515]

Yes!!

[@kevinsplinter8595]

Cool.
Thanks for sharing

[@larryweinberg1191]

Heard Sun Ra's group In 70's in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The tunes on his albums turn like pages as each tune is audio story to be listened to chronologically. Maybe just my take. I know his version of "On the Sunny side of the Street" is very uplifting and his long time alto sax player Marshall Allen is still playing, being close to 100 years old.

[@mike8015]

I used to work with John Sinclair's daughter. She knew Sun Ra throughout her younger years and told me, "Everything that you have ever heard about that man is true. Everything."

[@benflint]

It's hard to explain - I don't think Sun Ra comes off on record. Live, you get it. I saw him a few times in Atlanta, and it was electrifying,.........

[@thesoundsmith]

Records cannot convey the Sun Ra experience, they are a frozen moment in an ongoing eternal process, a snapshot of a tsunami. Playing transcendental music is NOT a simple task, creating living art from less than nothing requires the willingness to become nothing, to let the music play YOU., I have been controlled by the music and the freedom is exquisite, but fragile. Being able to sustain a full evening requires a true master. (which I am NOT...)

[@Gk2003m]

I got to enjoy the experience a couple times. Mesmerizing AND educational.

[@zwickhouse]

Good stuff. The Sun Ra House (as shown in the video) is in Philly's Germantown, not the east village of that other town up north.

[@moorbilt]

Bye Bye

[@CVinyl]

"Space is the place" - Sun Ra 🛸

[@siriusra2692]

.....Sun Ra was a musical genius........Trane was chasing Sunny

[@thesoundsmith]

Disagree - Trane and Sunny were aiming at the same target, but on different trains (pun inadvertent.) John had a clear, harmonic vision, Sun Ra was more intuitive. Both great musicians, tho...

[@siriusra2692]

@@thesoundsmith .......I agree that Trane was trying to find the bridge between organized harmonic structure and the total abandonment of predictable Harmony in a more easy to follow progression..........but with Sun Ra it wasn't as easy to follow his musical logic into the uncharted territory of chromatic harmonic extensions and tension notes in which is commonly called playing the wrong notes ......

[@Steve-mp7by]

Saturn?

[@rillloudmother]

this is the stuff that everybody tells you, lol.

[@CurtisBooksMusic]

Sun Ra was a below average jazz musician who created a dumb identity to bamboozle people into buying his albums.

[@CurtisBooksMusic]

@@leeroc1 Don't listen to me OR them. Listen to Sun Ra's "music." There's your answer.

[@leeroc1]

I have, Sun Ra rules. But what has Curtis been up to all these years to develop such a sophisticated ear? Sounds like another modern online critic, you guys come in droves! We are all so lucky to witness your insight. 🙉

[@thesoundsmith]

I can understand where you're coming from, but having played with a few genuine 'avant-garde'-style players (Sonny Simmons and Barbara Donald, mainly) I can testify as to the validity and continuation of concept that happens. It IS real music, just not YOUR rules. (Or usually, mine. But that's the joy of it.) Rules are made to be extended.

[@JulieCarey-y1n]

Sun Ra was a SHAMAN…a SORCERER…he can’t be placed except SOMEWHERE ELSE: HE HAD HIS OWN PLACE IN SPACE.HIS OWN UNI-VERSE OF WORDS..WORLDS..WHORLS…he was already GONE when he CAME…….check out..”Atlantis” 🐝🌹🌈💫 “ Only the way-out know the way out.” BOB KAUFMAN -

[@MrJadePinwheel]

​@@CurtisBooksMusicSun Ra was on the highest plane of musicianship, he just did the "out" stuff to make a point. Listen to his more traditional "jazz in silhouette" album if you don't believe he was a real musician

[@axelazaryan]

Space is the place FOREVER 🛸

[@anta40]

Until today, I still occasionally experience "WTF moments" when listening to Sun Ra's tracks.
Return to Forever: quite easily digestible
Zappa or Mahavishnu Orchestra: mmm doable, after 3rd or 4th time listening
Sun Ra: even weirder avant garde stuffs