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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, alto
Elson Nascimento
percussion

About

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....

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