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Sun Ra
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Herman Blount from Birmingham, Alabama, played piano in the orchestra of Fletcher Henderson, his great example, in 1946 and 1947. In Chicago he took the name Sun Ra and said that he came from Saturn. With his big band, the Arkestra, he lived together as a commune. The band played swing, bebop, free improvisation and early electronic sounds on organ and synthesizer, in costumes from ancient Egypt and space travel. Sun Ra released his records on a label of his own, El Saturn. In 1972 he made the film Space Is the Place. His ideas about space and Black history later came to be called Afrofuturism.
Listening
Space Is the Place · Sun Ra, 1972
Enlightenment · Sun Ra, 1959
Rocket Number Nine · Sun Ra, 1960
Discography
Studio albums
- 1957Jazz by Sun Ra
- 1962The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- 1965The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1
- 1967Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
- 1969Monorails and Satellites, Volume 2
- 1970Nothing Is…
- 1972Astro Black
- 1973Monorails and Satellites
- 1973Space Is the Place
- 1974The Antique Blacks
- 1975What's New?
- 1976Cosmos
- 1977The Soul Vibrations of Man
- 1978Lanquidity
- 1978New Steps
- 1979Omniverse
- 1979Visions
- 1980Of Mythic Worlds
- 1981Aurora Borealis
- 1982Oblique Parallax
- 1982Strange Celestial Road
- 1983Just Friends
- 1983Ra to the Rescue
- 1985Hiroshima
- 1985Outer Reach Intensity-Energy
- 1985When Spaceships Appear
- 1988Hidden Fire 1
- 1988Hidden Fire 2
- 1989Blue Delight
- 1990Purple Night
- 1992Solo Piano, Volume 1
- 1998Somewhere Else
- 1998Spaceways
- 1999Janus
- 2000Standards
- 2000The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums
- 2003Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.1
- 2003Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.2
- 2003Piano Recital: Teatro la Fenice
- 2003Spaceship Lullaby
- 2005Heliocentric Worlds, Volume 3: The Lost Tapes
- 2007The Creator of the Universe
- 2011Space Probe: A Tonal View of Times Tomorrow, Vol. 1
- 2014Sign Of The Myth
- 2015I Roam the Cosmos
- 2018“Of Abstract Dreams”
- 2018Crystal Spears
- 2018Sun Ra with Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold
- 2019Solo Piano at WKCR, 1977
- 2021Sleeping Beauty
- 2021Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Beyond Saturn)
- 2022Ellingtonia, Vol. 1
- 2024Berkeley Lecture, 1971
- 2024Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC
- 2024Kingdom of Discipline
- 2024Pink Elephants on Parade
- 2024Somewhere in Space
- 2025Hidden Fire
- 2026Elliptical Orbits
- 2026Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Beyond Saturn)
Other work
- 1959Jazz in Silhouette
- 1965The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Jazz MapNL Map
- After Hours: Session 3NL Reader