While working on her new documentary about composer, pianist, and poet Sun Ra, Christine Turner kept words of wisdom from the visionary bandleader close at hand. “I kept these quotes on my wall above ...

Without the jazz musician, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra, the music industry would look and sound somewhat different. Countless mainstream artists have been inspired by his boundlessness and his ability ...

The 16th annual Montgomery Film Festival will take place Aug. 1-3 at the Capri Theatre. The festival will feature seven feature films, over 20 short films and a live horror remix. Highlights include a ...

Watch James Supp appraise Sun Ra's metallic headdress, ca. 1970, in this social extra from Living History Farms in Urbandale, IA. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American ...

Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

For decades, American jazz saxophonist Knoel Scott has been honoring Herman "Sonny" Blount, aka Sun Ra, the composer, keyboardist and founder of the ethereal Sun Ra Arkestra. "Either the spirit is ...