WTF? How could this be? We've been doing Dreaming of the Masters for how long now? How many years? And we still haven't gotten around to Sun Ra yet? Inconceivable!
We need to rectify this. From here on in, this series will only feature Sun Ra, and even that wouldn't fully make amends for our colossal oversight. We could make this blog about nothing but Sun Ra, 100% posts about him and his music, but we're not going to do that.
Sun Ra released a staggering number of recordings from 1956 until his passing/transcendence in 1993, and recordings, from major-label reissues to bootleg live sets to the most limited of private pressings, are still surfacing. And his Arkestra is still going strong today even without him and with many of its featured soloists now well into their 80s and 90s. It's a deep, deep dive, and we're going to be swimming in the waters for a while folks, so let's strap in and take off.
No comments:
Post a Comment