Sun Ra

This Saturday, April 20, is Record Store Day — a windfall for archival jazz releases. Our jazz team has heard it all, and brought you these insights.

Tyler Mitchell, a former sideman in the Arkestra, reconnects with Marshall Allen, its longtime leader, on 'Sun Ra's Journey,' recorded live at Smalls.

A new single from the Sun Ra Arkestra's album 'Living Sky' reimagines Chopin's Prelude in A Major, Op. 28 #7.

October 26, 2020. It’s been over 20 years since the release of the Sun Ra Arkestra’s last studio album, 1999’s Song for the Sun. But their new album,…

Celebrating the influence of the Philadelphia visionary musician, philosopher, composer, and band leader Sun Ra, Philadelphia Jazz Project presents…

"In my music I speak of unknown things, impossible things, ancient things, potential things," the influential and eccentric jazz musician once said. "No two songs tell the same story."

WRTI's J. Michael Harrison recently moderated a very special panel that explored music known as "The New Thing" - from the free jazz movement of the 1950s…