Sun Ra
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Birmingham AL, United States (1914 – 1993)
Born as Herman Poole Blount, in Birmingham, Alabama, he was nicknamed Sonny from his youth. Later, after his release from a detention camp for protesting world war II, he took on the name and persona of Sun Ra (the ancient Egyptian Sun God). Claiming that he was of the “Angel Race” and not from Earth, but rather from Saturn; borrowing from African and Afro-American theater, theosophy and masonic Afro-futurism, Ra developed a complicated but consistent library of cosmic philosophies and lyrical poetry that preached spiritual awareness and peace above all.
He could play many modern classical works from memory and had worked in country and western bands before moving to Chicago. His personal music collection contained over 10,000 discs, and he was constantly reviewing and studying. Many of Ra’s improvisation and compositional innovations were extensions of ideas from Twentieth Century European composers, bringing these ideas into jazz music often decades before the same methods were popularized by the commercial artists. Ra fans in the East Village included Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane.
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