Sun Ra was born 100 years ago today

[Hot Ptah]

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/22/314593139/saturn-still-swings-celebrating-sun-ra-at-100

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/05/22/314363815/act-like-you-know-sun-ra

[BeBop]

That's 3.39 Saturn years. Happy Birthday, Sun Ra.

[Clunky]

Hurrah for Ra.

[alankin]

21 Sun Ra albums remastered for iTunes:

http://jazztimes.com/sections/news/articles/130149-sun-ra-music-archive-reissues-21-albums-exclusively-for-itunes

"The Sun Ra Music Archive announced today—two days before the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist—that it has reissued 21 classic Sun Ra albums digitally for iTunes. These recordings, released under the banner of Sun Ra Mastered for iTunes, are available exclusively on the service in a 24-bit format at itunes.com/sunramusic. The albums are released on the Enterplanetary Koncepts label." .....

[Hot Ptah]

21 Sun Ra albums remastered for iTunes:

http://jazztimes.com/sections/news/articles/130149-sun-ra-music-archive-reissues-21-albums-exclusively-for-itunes

"The Sun Ra Music Archive announced today—two days before the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist—that it has reissued 21 classic Sun Ra albums digitally for iTunes. These recordings, released under the banner of Sun Ra Mastered for iTunes, are available exclusively on the service in a 24-bit format at itunes.com/sunramusic

. The albums are released on the Enterplanetary Koncepts label." .....

What I find amazing about this is that two of the albums have never been issued on CD: Astro Black and The Invisible Shield.

[JSngry]

Born? In what sense?

[imeanyou]

Ra runs rings round the rest...

That's a good enough reason to bring out Sounds of Joy.

[mjzee]

Article on Mr. Blount in yesterday's Wall St Journal: Still Out of This World.