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Article: FORMER ARKESTRA MEMBER CARRIES ON SPIRIT OF SUN RA IN COSMIC KREWE.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- November 1, 1996
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Band leader, composer, keyboardist and mystic Sun Ra claimed to come from Saturn. Dressed in cosmic regalia, his free and swinging Arkestra often paraded through audiences chanting ``Space is the place.''
Verifying the mythological proportions of Sun Ra's creative spirit are the recordings that have been issued since his 1993 death and the number of bands drawing on his music. Two play the Earshot Jazz Festival this weekend.
Trumpeter Michael Ray, who was with Sun Ra for 14 years, brings his Cosmic Krewe to The Backstage tonight at 8. Admission is $15. And at 8 tomorrow night, there is a Sun Ra Intergalactic Improv Gala at Queen Anne Hall. Admission is ...
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Article: New live discs emerge from the otherworldly Sun Ra
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... ... Disco 3000," the opening track of a Sun Ra album of the same name that was recorded ... British label called Art Yard. The set, "Sun Ra: Disco 3000: Complete Milan Concert 1978 ... Disco 3000" constitutes a Holy Grail of Sun Ra's small-ensemble recordings. Sun Ra ...
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