Interviews
- Sun Ra Interview (Claes Dahlgren, Swedish radio, 1965)
- Sun Ra interview (Helsinki, 1971) (message in the music? 2:20)
- Sun Ra UC Berkeley lecture (1971)
- Detroit Black Journal (TV program, 1981) (2:45, integrate; 3:40 Black musicians; 6:50 Egypt; 7:50 too busy trying to integrate)
- Sun Ra band member Pat Patrick’s son: Mass. governor Deval Patrick interview
Live Performances
- John Gilmore
- talking about Sun Ra
- with Art Blakey, Lee Morgan
- “I Can’t Get Started” (1964)
- “The Egyptian” (1965?)
- ART BLAKEY w JOHN GILMORE – On The Ginza
- Take the A Train (Montreux, 1976)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – Aarhus 1976
- Space is the Place (North Sea Jazz Festival, 1979)
- Face the Music/Space is the Place (on tv show Night Music)
- Shadow World (West Berlin, 1983)
- Sun Ra Arkestra with Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Archie Shepp (West Berlin 1983) (Marshall Allen 14:10)
- Warsaw Jazz Jamboree (1987): John Gilmore (6:20, 31:25, 42:00), Marshall Allen (54:00), Sun Ra (22:15, 52:00)
Documentaries/Films
- Cry of Jazz (1959)
- French TV documentary (1969)
- Space is the Place (extended full version) (1974) (Youth center 22:05; 23:25)
- Search for a Place by Delany and Campbell (1860, reprinted 1969)
- Delany and Campbell: Black Americans in Search of an Africa Colony (Blackett, 1977)–Wesleyan JSTOR access only
- A Joyful Noise (1980)
- Mystery, Mr. Ra (1984) (Marshall Allen, 21:40) (alternate video: part 1 ; part 2)
- excerpt from Mystery, Mr. Ra
- Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet (Don Letts, 2005)
Discographies
- Discography (Lord Discography)–Wesleyan access only
- Discography–Suso Navarrete
- Discography–From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra, The Chicago Years
Sun Ra Charts (from LOC)
Afrofuturism
- Sun Ra and AfroFuturism (Youngquist, VICE, 11/6/2016)
- Afrofuturism: The Next Generation (NYT, 12/12/2016)
- An Alternate Canon of Afrofuturist Classics (Red Bull Music Academy, 2019)
- Film/Video
- The Last Angel of History (John Akomfrah, 1996), Wesleyan access only
- Dirty Computer (Janelle Monae, 2018)
Articles
- Sun Ra in Birmingham (Birmingham Weld, 2014)
- “A Guide to the Many Sun Ra Albums Now on Bandcamp” (Patrick Jarenwattananon)
- “A Somewhat Comprehensive Guide to Sun Ra’s Cosmic Jazz” (Vulture, Andy Beta, 10/11/2017)
- “Why is Sun Ra Suddenly Having His Moment?” (Rolling Stone, Brad Farberman, 10/18/2017)
- “Sun Ra: I’m Everything and Nothing” (NY Review of Books, Namwali Serpell, 7/23/2020), on Ming Smith’s photography