Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music.
In Sun Ra\'s Chicago , William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth--specifically to the city\'s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived.
Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home.
Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music