Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra

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Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole “Sonny” Blount (1914–1993), has been hailed as “one of the crucial great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz” (New York Times) and as “the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy” (Rolling Stone). Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his “Intergalactic Arkestra” of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to be-bop, free jazz, fusion, and New Age music. This definitive biography reveals the life, philosophy, and musical growth of one of the crucial twentieth century’s greatest avant-garde musicians.

Born Herman Poole Blount in Alabama in 1914, he reinvented himself within the 1950s as Sun Ra, the nice surrealist of jazz whose free-form performances along with his Arkestra amply justified the outline &quot’jspace music.” His mystical beliefs were equally avant-garde; Yale professor John Szwed sympathetically explains some quite far-out notions as “driven by a hunger for totality that only music could express.” Szwed recovers the biographical facts Sun Ra used to be steadily at pains to difficult to understand, without losing sight of the overriding role imagination played on this visionary life.

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