Remembering Sun Ra on his birthday 🎂🎉
This Baron Wolman shot was used on the cover of Rolling Stone, April 19, 1969
Take the A Train:
Ming Smith
Sun Ra Space II, New York, 1978
"A jazz musician has certain notes - & then they improvise. I basically improvise with what I have. If there’s low light, I deal with it."
Remembering Sun Ra on his birthday 🎂
At the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague
Photo: Frans Schellekens, 14 July 1990
Sun Ra by Jan Persson
Copenhagen, 1992
"I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself."
Jim McCrary
Sun Ra on the Golden Gate Bridge, 1974
"I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me."
On Sun Ra's birthday, I'm listening to his first album, Jazz by Sun Ra, volume 1, from 1957
Playing baritone sax on that album, & for many more Sun Ra albums over the years, is Pat Patrick, father of Mass. Governor Deval Patrick. In the 2nd shot he's playing with the Sun Ra Arkestra at the Chicago Jazz Festival
📷 Leni Sinclair, Detroit, 1966
Raymond Boyd, 2014
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