It comments on the innovations of Black musical history while acknowledging the ongoing fight for civil rights. It was incredibly controversial for these reasons and the frank discussions between the multi-racial cast at the center of the film
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Part documentary, part musical ethnography, “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) was conceived by the composer Edward Bland, novelist Mark Kennedy, city-planner Nelam Hill, and mathematician Eugene Titus
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Time for our first feature presentation: “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) directed by Edward O. Bland (youtu.be/fE00fzXpI04?...) and featuring the music of poet, musician and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra and His Arkestra
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Somebody Else's Idea Sun Ra Arkestra · Living Sky · Song · 2022

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

SHE Spells Doom & Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Somebody Else's Idea

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Rocket No. 9, by Sun Ra Arkestra from the album Swirling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Rocket No. 9

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Chopin, by Sun Ra Arkestra from the album Living Sky

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Chopin (Calibre Remix)

#6music #SunRaArkestra

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Seven key figures of the Sun Ra Arkestra | American Masters | PBS Learn about seven key figures of the Arkestra, an ensemble of musicians who shared Sun Ra's commitment to experimentation and imagination.

I wrote about Seven Key Figures of the Sun Ra Arkestra — the musicians who helped bring Sun Ra’s visionary ideas to life through sound and performance. The documentary airs February 20 on PBS American Masters. Give it a read. 🥁
#SunRaArkestra #AmericanMasters #PBS
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Transmissions :: DM Hotep (Sun Ra Arkestra) Though he departed this earthly realm in 1993, Afrofuturist and free jazz icon Sun Ra’s cosmic tones continue to echo through the spaceways. A composer, poet, and some might even say a prophet, Ra see...

Transmissions | Transmissions :: DM Hotep (Sun Ra Arkestra).
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Spontaneous Simplicity, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the album Pictures of Infinity

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Spontaneous Simplicity

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Spontaneous Simplicity, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the album Pictures of Infinity

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Spontaneous Simplicity

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Space Is The Place, by Sun Ra And His Mythic Science Arkestra from the album The Paris Tapes - Live At Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Space Is The Place

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Calling Planet Earth, by Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra from the album Gilles Peterson Presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Calling Planet Earth

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Space Is The Place, by Sun Ra And His Mythic Science Arkestra from the album The Paris Tapes - Live At Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Space Is The Place

#6music #SunRaArkestra

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

#BertholdBrecht #KurtWeil
#MarcBlitzStein
#SunRaArkestra
#MackTheKnife
#DreigroschenOper

The struggle to decide which of these should be the first to premiere my new-to-me record player…

•”If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power,” @halsey.bsky.social
•”200% Electronica,” #ESPRITMusic (@georgeclanton.bsky.social)
•”Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold,” #SunRaArkestra

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Sunrise on the Night

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Sun Ra Arkestra- KPFA New Wave Show 9/23/77 xfer f/Scott Davey Iguana Studios Archive tape Free Jazz Collections post, from the newly acquired Scott Davey collection. He ran Iguana Studios and was in a number of 1970s punk/new wave bands, including Red Asphalt. He has a ton of recordings I have ne…

AUDIO: Sun Ra Arkestra- KPFA New Wave Show 9/23/77 xfer f/Scott Davey Iguana Studios Archive tape Free Jazz

Collections post for Thu, Oct 23.

Appears to be a newly discovered Sun Ra tape from the 70s
#sunraarkestra #KPFA #berkeley
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Friendly Galaxy / Third Planet, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the album Disco 3000 (Expanded)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Friendly Galaxy (Part 1 of 3)

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Friendly Galaxy / Third Planet, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the album Disco 3000 (Expanded)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Friendly Galaxy (Part 2 of 3)

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Satellites Are Spinning / Lights on a Satellite, by Sun Ra Arkestra from the album Swirling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Lights On A Satellite (Part 1 of 2)

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Sun Ra Arkestra · Lights on a Satellite · Song · 2024

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Friendly Galaxy (Part 1 of 3)

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▶️ Song on #Spotify:

Friendly Galaxy / Third Planet, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra from the album Disco 3000 (Expanded)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Friendly Galaxy (Part 1 of 3)

#6music #SunRaArkestra

▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Satellites Are Spinning / Lights on a Satellite, by Sun Ra Arkestra from the album Swirling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra Arkestra:
🎵 Lights On A Satellite (Part 1 of 2)

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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

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