Today Sun Ra is 108…. The Outer Space Employment Agency. [Sun Ra - Outer Space Employment Agency] Hope there are some fellow Sun Ra fans on the forum. As a young art student my friends and I would smoke copious amounts of cheap weed and listen to all the Sun Ra we could get our hands …

[image] [image] Once again Happy Birthday Sun Ra! Marshall Allen’s 100th birthday is coming up May 25th. Marsg=hall continues to lead the Sun Ra Arkestra to this day. [image]

A terrific Evidence cd reissue…. [IMG_1002] [IMG_1003]

Saw Sun Ra back in the day at The Blue Note (or was it Village Vanguard? I can’t remember). Larger than life. A cool night.

Original LP, and a reissue LP as well as the early Evidence CD, so I think I’m good.

Sun Ra performances were always unforgettable. Saw him and the Arkestra many times in Chicago and Madison. Booked the Arkestra for Madison pre-covid.

I saw him in a rural college in the mid 70s. Within 10 minutes half the student audience got up and left. I suspect they had no idea what was going on. For those of us who stayed, it was a treat.

I saw him in '74. I started investigating his stuff and found I really liked the early stuff, even more, and stuff after '74 even less. I have probably over a hundred of his discs. . . enough that I have not been buying many new ones, and have been disappointed in most that I have bought this decade…

[image] Uncredited photo from Ben Tan, Happy Birthday Marshall Allen! EDIT: Photo courtesey of Cecil Brooks.

Happy BDay Sun Ra

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weedeewop May 23, 2022, 5:30am 3

Major Sun Ra Fan here. Seek out the Strictly Jazz Sounds thread within this forum.

Strictly Jazz Sounds

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Happy BDay Sun Ra

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