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Greatest Hits: Easy Listening For Intergalactic Travel
Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, you can hear Sun Ra on Top Forty radio. We should be so lucky. Pegged in his lifetime (1915-1993) as a jazz eccentric with a messianic complex, the late Ra was a composer and bandleader who believed in the universal magic of his music. Greatest Hits is a fine...
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With his spangly costumes, circus-style multimedia concerts,
otherworldly cosmology, and surreal marriage of heady avant-gardism
with funky tent-show gospel, Sun Ra was one of the most unique,
colorful, and self-determined visionaries in modern popular music.
With Miles Davis, he was one of the few authentic jazz figures to
exert a wide, discernible influence not just on jazz artists (most
explici...
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