Sun Ra Sun Ra, born Herman Poole Blount, was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his "cosmic" philosophy of music and life. A pioneer in ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is going to review a newly released recording of a concert he attended in 1978 by pianist Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Kevin says the colorful ...

This video captures innovative jazz composer, bandleader and pianist/synthesizer player Sun Ra's two live concert performances in East Berlin in 1986. Claiming that he was of the "Angel Race" and not ...