Sun Ra’s statement, musically and spoken, is that this is a primitive world. Its practices, beliefs, religions, are uneducated, unenlightened, savage, destructive, already in the past. That’s why Sun ...

Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

The three-day event featuring Jazz Mafia, Circus Bella and Island City Opera-with an appearance from internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade-will be the first in a series of events ...