This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is
about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black
people and spiritual matters. With the various incarnations of his
inimitable Arkestra, his repertoire ranged from boogie-woogie to swing
to be-bop to fusion to New Age, and his influence extended throughout
the jazz and rock worlds. While Sun Ra made a lifelong effort to obscure
many of the facts of his early years, he did acknowledge that he was
born on the planet Saturn.
John Szwed has succeeded brilliantly in delving into and evoking the life and work of this extraordinary artist.
Space is the Place : The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - John Szwed
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