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    Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer...
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    gods in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the noon-day sun. Ra ruled in all parts of the created world: the sky, the Earth, and the underworld...
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  • The Sun Ra discography is one of the largest discographies in music history. Jazz keyboardist, bandleader and composer Sun Ra recorded dozens of singles...
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    The Sun Ra Arkestra is an American jazz group formed in the mid-1950s and led by keyboardist/composer Sun Ra until his death in 1993. The group is considered...
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  • Jazz By Sun Ra (later titled Sun Song) is the debut album by Sun Ra. The record label for the first pressing says "07-12-56", presumably when it was recorded...
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    The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re, usually depicted as sun disk or right wedjat-eye (paired with the Eye of Horus, left wedjat-eye), is an entity in ancient Egyptian...
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  • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise is a 1980 jazz film by Robert Mugge documenting performances by Sun Ra and his Arkestra in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore...
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  • Space Is the Place is a studio album by Sun Ra. It was originally released on the Blue Thumb label in 1973. In 1998, it was reissued by Impulse! Records...
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    John Gilmore (musician) (category Sun Ra Arkestra members)
    avant-garde keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra from the 1950s to the 1990s, and led The Sun Ra Arkestra from Sun Ra's death in 1993 until his own death in...
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  • Look up -ra, Ra, ra, or RA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ra is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt. Ra or RA may also refer to: Ra (Stargate), a character...
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  • The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recorded on October 10, 1961, for the Savoy label and...
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    Solar deity (redirect from Sun god)
    into the expanding popularity of Ra and the Osiris-Horus mythology. Atum became Ra-Atum, the rays of the setting Sun. Osiris became the divine heir to...
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  • issued on LP format credited to Walt Dickerson (with Sun Ra), and later reissued on CD credited to Sun Ra and Walt Dickerson. In his review for AllMusic, Stewart...
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  • Sun Ra - 1:44 Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: "Dawn over Israel" (Sun Ra) - 10:00 Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra: "The Shadow World" (Sun Ra) - 22:08 Sun Ra...
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  • Alton Abraham (category Sun Ra)
    American social entrepreneur who acted as business manager for jazz musician Sun Ra. Abraham was born in Chicago and served in the U.S Military in Okinawa from...
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    Living Earth Show. The work's libretto includes quotes from John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Nietzsche, and Hegel. Lamar coined the terms...
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  • Chicago's black neighborhoods, performances by Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester and the music of Sun Ra and Paul Severson interspersed with scenes...
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    Michael Ray (trumpeter) (category Sun Ra Arkestra members)
    extensively with Kool & the Gang, Sun Ra and the successor Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen's direction following Sun Ra's passing. For a period from the...
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  • Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 album by the jazz musician Sun Ra. The back cover describes it as an "album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played...
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    best known for his work with keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra and is an original member of the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen. Knoel...
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    Marshall Allen (category Sun Ra Arkestra members)
    with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led The Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995, after Sun Ra's death...
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  • Space Is the Place (category Sun Ra)
    released in 1974. It was directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith, and features Sun Ra and his Arkestra. A soundtrack was released on Evidence...
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  • similarly named jazz composer Sun Ra. Their music has been described as progressive soul, neo funk, and alternative hip hop. Sa-Ra formed in the late 1990s...
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    Alec Empire (redirect from DJ Mix Sun Ra)
    Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972) is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band...
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  • bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra recorded in 1979 and originally released on Ra's Saturn label and rereleased...
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  • Marvin "Bugalu" Smith (category Sun Ra Arkestra members)
    an American jazz percussionist best known for his work with the Sun Ra and The Sun Ra Arkestra. Smith was born in Englewood, New Jersey. The son of a...
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  • Cosmos is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in France in 1976 and originally released on the French...
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  • Amun (redirect from Amun-Ra)
    with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra (alternatively spelled Amon-Ra or Amun-Re). On his own, he was also thought to be the king of the gods. Amun-Ra retained...
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  • the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Recorded in two sessions in 1965, the record was released on Ra's own Saturn label in 1966. The...
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  • of Invention, Simon & Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Blues Project, the...
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