Sun Ra

Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, you can hear Sun Ra on Top Forty radio. We should
be so lucky. Pegged in his lifetime (1915-1993) as a jazz eccentric with a messianic
complex, the late Ra was a composer and bandleader who believed in the universal magic
of his music. Greatest Hits is a fine neophyte's introduction to Ra's self-made world of
cosmological metaphor and audacious swing. "We Travel the Spaceways" and "R... More >