num_pages: 496
description: Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount (1914–1993), has been hailed as "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" (New York Times) and as "the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy" (Rolling Stone). Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his "Intergalactic Arkestra" of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to be-bop, free jazz, fusion, and New Age music. This definitive biography reveals the life, philosophy, and musical growth of one of the twentieth century's greatest avant-garde musicians.
language: English
title: Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
titlecomplete: Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
characters: Sun Ra
genres: Music, Jazz, History, African American, Biography Memoir, Biography, Unfinished, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 1171
publisher: Da Capo Press