Sun Ra ArkestraMimi Ohio Theatre Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, OH June 27, 2025 When is a band not a ghost band? It is a question posed by a Cleveland jazz media figure after a performance by the Sun Ra ...

Sun Ra Arkestra will perform this Sunday (7/9) at Pioneer Works in Red Hook as part of the art space’s Second Sundays program. The show is free and kicks off with a reading by trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah ...

To celebrate the final week of The Guggenheim’s exhibit, Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers, Sun Ra Arkestra performed in the museum’s rotunda on Saturday night. Still led by 101-years-young ...

The post Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen Releases Debut Solo Album Recorded Just Days After He Turned 100: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen has released his ...

The Sun Ra Arkestra, the musical collective founded in Chicago in the mid-fifties, moved out of the Lower East Side in 1968, and wound up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, on a very ...

Hills hit up the annual Noise Pop festival (February 19-March 1) to sample the indie music feast. Check out our full coverage ...

Marshall Allen, 96, has led Sun Ra's Arkestra since 1993 and still lives in the Sun Ra House in Germantown. (Emma Lee/WHYY) The terrestrial headquarters of the Sun Ra Arkestra is a three-story ...

The Chicago Reader is back in print! Our February issue is being delivered to more than 600 locations across the city beginning February 4. Find the closest newspaper box, coffee shop, bar, library ...

For decades, American jazz saxophonist Knoel Scott has been honoring Herman "Sonny" Blount, aka Sun Ra, the composer, keyboardist and founder of the ethereal Sun Ra Arkestra. "Either the spirit is ...

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 ...

The outlandish persona Sun Ra created and maintained for himself over the years may sometimes distract from the adventurous intent of the music he made. Yet it is testament to his vigorous loyalty to ...