Sun Ra
person
12 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 20 Aug
±0 vs the 6 months before
Avant‑garde jazz pianist and bandleader featured in the segment
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Peak in the week of 15 Aug — 1 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentPeter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · divulge · 0:36 · 20 Aug
…Sun Ra's agent had called, he said the orchestra was heading out on tour soon to Europe, and Sunny wanted the three of us to join him.…
Jad AbumradFresh Air · Fela Kuti and the music of political resistance · 26:03 · 12 Feb
…Stevie Wonder, Sun Ra, Audre Lorde, all of these different cultural icons from every different discipline to come to gather in Lagos for an extended cultural festival.…
Kevin WhiteheadFresh Air · Miranda July Wants Women To Read Their Inner Lives In 'All F... · 49:47 · Dec 2024
…In the booklet, someone guesses Sun Ra played three or four times for the Left Bank Jazz Society when it was 13 concerts in 11 years. Producer Feldman calls himself the jazz detective, but it's a detective's job to sift through conflicting accounts to tell us what really happened, not just throw it all out there before racing off to another case.…
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