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Sun Ra (22 May 1914 - 30 May 1993)

Male Person - United States

 Also known as (2)

Releases (91)

Official

Album

  1. Jazz by Sun Ra 1957
  2. The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra 1962
  3. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1 1965
  4. Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus 1967
  5. Monorails and Satellites, Volume 2 1969
  6. Nothing Is… 1970
  7. Astro Black 1972
  8. Space Is the Place 1973
  9. Monorails and Satellites 1973
  10. The Antique Blacks 1974
  11. What's New? 1975
  12. Cosmos 1976
  13. The Soul Vibrations of Man 1977
  14. Lanquidity 14 Aug 1978
  15. New Steps 1978
  16. St. Louis Blues: Solo Piano 1978
  17. Sleeping Beauty 02 Nov 1979
  18. Omniverse 1979
  19. Of Mythic Worlds 1980
  20. Aurora Borealis 1981
  21. Oblique Parallax 1982
  22. Strange Celestial Road 1982
  23. Ra to the Rescue 1983
  24. Just Friends 1983
  25. When Spaceships Appear 1985
  26. Outer Reach Intensity-Energy 1985
  27. Hiroshima 1985
  28. Hidden Fire 2 1988
  29. Hidden Fire 1 1988
  30. Blue Delight 1989
  31. Purple Night Aug 1990
  32. Solo Piano, Volume 1 1992
  33. Somewhere Else 05 Oct 1998
  34. Spaceways 1998
  35. Janus 12 Oct 1999
  36. The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums 2000
  37. Standards 2000
  38. Piano Recital: Teatro la Fenice Aug 2003
  39. Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.1 2003
  40. Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.2 2003
  41. Spaceship Lullaby 2003
  42. Heliocentric Worlds, Volume 3: The Lost Tapes 2005
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Album - Compilation

  1. The Singles 24 Sep 1996
  2. Calling Planet Earth 1998
  3. Heliocentric Worlds Volumes 1 and 2 2005
  4. Dance of the Living Image 2007
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Album - Live

  1. Concert for the Comet Kohoutek 1993
  2. The Shadows Took Shape 2007
  3. Intergalactic Research 2007
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Promotion

Album - Compilation

  1. Les Génies du Jazz (Tome 6, No. 10): Sun Ra (and His Arkestra) 1991
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Relationships (7)

Tribute Artists

  1. Ahmed Abdullah’s Dispersions of the Spirit of Ra
  2. PD9 Sun Ra Centennial Band

Member Of

  1. The Sun Ra Arkestra original, eponymous
  2. Sun Ra Trio original, eponymous
  3. The Nu Sounds

Supporting By

  1. James Spaulding saxophone

Inspired The Name Of

  1. The Sun Ra Ensemble

Recordings by (696)

  1. New Horizons 3:05 (1957)
  2. Fall Off the Log 3:59 (1957)
  3. Sun Song 3:37 (1957)
  4. Transition 3:41 (1957)
  5. Possession 4:57 (1957)
  6. Lullaby for Realville 4:42 (1957)
  7. Brainville 4:29 (1957)
  8. Call for All Demons 4:30 (1957)
  9. Street Named Hell 3:55 (1957)
  10. Future 3:15 (1957)
  11. The Blue Set 4:42 (1960)
  12. Bassism 4:06 (1962)
  13. Of Sounds and Something Else 2:53 (1962)
  14. What’s That? 2:15 (1962)
  15. Where is Tomorrow? 2:49 (1962)
  16. The Beginning 6:29 (1962)
  17. China Gates 3:24 (1962)
  18. New Day 5:51 (1962)
  19. Tapestry from an Asteroid 3:01 (1962)
  20. Jet Flight 3:15 (1962)
  21. Looking Outward 2:49 (1962)
  22. Space Jazz Reverie 4:53 (1962)
  23. Heliocentric 4:21 (1965)
  24. Outer Nothingness 7:38 (1965)
  25. Other Worlds 4:36 (1965)
  26. The Cosmos 7:30 (1965)
  27. Of Heavenly Things 5:45 (1965)
  28. Nebulae 3:20 (1965)
  29. Dancing in the Sun 1:56 (1965)
  30. Onward 3:30 (1967)
  31. Somewhere in Space 2:58 (1967)
  32. Interplanetary Music 2:22 (1967)
  33. Interstellar Low Ways 8:20 (1967)
  34. Space Loneliness 4:28 (1967)
  35. Space Aura 3:07 (1967)
  36. Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus 6:11 (1967)
  37. Astro Vision 3:10 (1969)
  38. The Ninth Eye 9:00 (1969)
  39. Solar Boats 5:00 (1969)
  40. Perspective Prisms of Is 6:20 (1969)
  41. Calundronius 8:00 (1969)
  42. Astro Black 10:46 (1972)
  43. Discipline 4:39 (1972)
  44. Hidden Spheres 6:56 (1972)
  45. The Cosmo‐Fire 18:22 (1972)
  46. Space Is the Place 21:14 (1973)
  47. Images 6:16 (1973)
  48. Discipline 33 4:52 (1973)
  49. Sea of Sounds 7:41 (1973)
  50. Rocket Number Nine 2:54 (1973)
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On Recordings (50)

Arranged

  1. Super Blonde 2:37 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  2. Sunology 5:42 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  3. Sunology, Part 2 7:06 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  4. Soft Talk 2:43 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  5. El Is a Sound of Joy 3:58 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  6. Medicine for a Nightmare 2:25 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  7. Springtime in Chicago 3:54 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  8. Blues at Midnight 6:32 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  9. India 4:51 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  10. Advice to Medics 2:04 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  11. Portrait of the Living Sky 1:51 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)
  12. Kingdom of Not 5:33 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957)

Instruments

  1. Confessin' 3:01 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  2. Modern Fantasy 3:01 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  3. September Song 3:28 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  4. Flight Eleven 2:56 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  5. Should I 3:11 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  6. You Can't Take That Away From Me 2:57 Coleman Hawkins (1955) piano
  7. El Is a Sound of Joy 3:58 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) piano
  8. Transition 3:41 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  9. New Horizons 3:05 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  10. Sunology 5:42 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) gong, electric piano, piano
  11. Fall Off the Log 3:59 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  12. Portrait of the Living Sky 1:51 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) piano
  13. Blues at Midnight 6:32 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) piano
  14. Possession 4:57 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  15. Sun Song 3:37 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  16. India 4:51 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) gong, electric piano
  17. Sunology, Part 2 7:06 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano, piano
  18. Soft Talk 2:43 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano, piano, piano
  19. Advice to Medics 2:04 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano
  20. Kingdom of Not 5:33 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) piano
  21. Super Blonde 2:37 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano, piano, piano
  22. Medicine for a Nightmare 2:25 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano, piano
  23. Lullaby for Realville 4:42 Sun Ra (1957) piano
  24. Springtime in Chicago 3:54 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1957) electric piano, piano
  25. Saturn 3:39 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  26. Enlightenment 5:04 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  27. Ancient Ethiopia 9:07 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  28. Images 3:51 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  29. Velvet 3:20 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  30. Hours After 3:44 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  31. Horoscope 3:46 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1958) piano
  32. The Blue Set 4:42 Sun Ra (1960) piano, piano
  33. Big City Blues 3:15 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1960) piano
  34. Reflects Motion 9:07 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1965) piano
  35. Friendly Galaxy 4:35 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1965) piano
  36. Bacon and Eggs 5:35 Walt Dickerson Quartet (1965) piano
  37. Solar Differentials 6:28 The Sun Ra Arkestra (1965) piano

Arranged

  1. The Blue Set 4:42 Sun Ra (1960)

Credited as (45)

  1. Sun Ra and Wilbur Ware
  2. Sun Ra, Wilbur Ware & Leo Blevins
  3. Sun Ra, Wilbur Ware & John Jenkins
  4. Sun Ra & The Nu Sounds
  5. Sun Ra with Thea Barbara
  6. Sun Ra and Pat Patrick
  7. John Cage & Sun Ra
  8. Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra
  9. Way meets Sun Ra
  10. The Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra and Arkestra
  11. Sun Ra and His Arkestra
  12. Sun Ra And His Arkestra
  13. Sun Ra and his Arkestra
  14. Gunjack feat. Sun Ra
  15. Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson
  16. Sonny Blount and Stuff Smith
  17. Sun Ra & June Tyson
  18. Sun Ra & June Tyson feat. Sun Ra & His Arkestra
  19. Sonny Ra vs Fu Fu Ra
  20. Sun Ra | Merzbow
  21. The Nu Sounds with Sun Ra
  22. The Nu Sounds With Sun Ra
  23. Sun Ra And The Cosmic Rays
  24. Sun Ra feat. Wilbur Ware
  25. The Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra
  26. Austin Peralta / Sun Ra
  27. Sun Ra & His Arkestra
  28. Marsh feat. Sun Ra
  29. Marsh & Sun Ra
  30. Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra
  31. Sun Ra
  32. The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale feat. Sun Ra & The Blues Project
  33. Sun Ra and The Cosmic Rays
  34. Sun Ra featuring June Tyson
  35. Sun Ra with Stuff Smith
  36. Sun Ra with Jesse Miller
  37. Sun Ra with an Unknown Vocalist
  38. Sun Ra and John Jenkins
  39. The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale, Sun Ra & The Blues Project
  40. Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra and His Myth Science Arkestra
  41. Ian Dury & the Music Students / Sun Ra
  42. Sun Ra feat. John Gilmore
  43. The Cosmic Rays with Sun Ra and Arkestra
  44. Sun Ra & The Sun Ra Arkestra
  45. Sun Ra & Walt Dickerson

Works (142)

Arranged

  1. Reflections in Blue
  2. El Viktor
  3. Saturn
  4. Planet Earth
  5. Eve
  6. Overtones of China
  7. Onward
  8. Somewhere in Space
  9. Interplanetary Music
  10. Interstellar Low Ways
  11. Space Loneliness
  12. Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
  13. Space Aura
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Wrote

  1. Dreaming
  2. Sun Ra Accepts the Key to the City of Detroit
  3. Discipline 27
  4. Untitled Improv
  5. Space Loneliness
  6. Love In Outer Space (Includes Long Drum Section)
  7. When There Is No Sun
  8. Lights on a Satellite
  9. Venus
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Composed

  1. They Plan
  2. Somewhere There
  3. Outer Spaceways Incorporated
  4. Song of the Sparer
  5. Spontaneous Simplicity
  6. Medicine for a Nightmare
  7. Space Aura
  8. It's After the End of the World
  9. It's Christmas Time
  10. Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)
  11. Space Loneliness
  12. Tapestry
  13. Haverford Impromptu #1
  14. Haverford Impromptu #2
  15. Love in Outer Space
  16. Space Fling
  17. Manhattan Cocktail
  18. We Travel the Spaceways
  19. Sketch
  20. Otherness Blue
  21. Somebody Else’s World
  22. Pleasant Twilight
  23. Walking on the Moon
  24. Somewhere Else
  25. Contrast
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Lyrics

  1. Outer Spaceways Incorporated
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Dedicated Works

  1. Emancipation Suite
  2. Like a Motherless Sun (For Sun Ra)
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Links (27)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.sunra.com/

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88607003
  2. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6kd58mh
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88607003
  4. https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-930471
  5. https://d-nb.info/gnd/119226200
  6. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/sun_ra
  7. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139001848

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Sun%20Ra

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/538211

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/35328

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000924232

Vgmdb

  1. https://vgmdb.net/artist/19061

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0704612/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/22328921

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354508

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/9317
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tIODqvzGUoEaK26rK4pvX

Purchase Music For Download

  1. https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/id72824

Bandcamp

  1. https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/

Biographies

  1. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2682

BBC Music

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/c27cac8e-4c4a-48c0-a4ba-41399b9c176d

Discography Pages

  1. http://www.sunraarkestra.com/sunradisco/

Social Networking

  1. https://www.facebook.com/SunRaMusic

Soundcloud

  1. https://soundcloud.com/heunaevivalostrautrockrchestra

Myspace

  1. https://myspace.com/sunrasaturn

Youtube Channels

  1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ6vuDnto1QvRr2TFHldDMw