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Sun Ra Arkestra - Directed By Marshall Allen at Band On The Wall
Courtesy of Joshua French | Posted on January 10, 2017
Where
Band On The Wall
25 Swan Street
Manchester
Map
0161 813 2222
When
Sun, April 2, 2017
19:30
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Musicians
Marshall Allen
saxophone, altoElson Nascimento
percussionAbout
Sun Ra was one of the greatest and least known jazz artists of the last four decades. Composer, bandleader, pianist, poet and Afro-Futurist philosopher, he founded his Arkestra to take jazz into unexplored territories – his style drawing simultaneously on black vaudeville, modern dance, Egyptian cosmology, Eastern philosophy, surrealism, kitsch, and the Bible.
The Arkestra performs today led by 91-year young alto saxophonist and long-time Ra collaborator Marshall Allen. The mischievous brass blasts and the grooves keep rolling, as the big band – fully dressed, as usual, in space capes with a hint of Ancient Egypt – takes off once again in a joyous burst of tightly organised madness....