Sun Ra

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 Marathon – WKCR FM – April 1987 – Sun Ra Interview with Phil Schaap

• 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)

• ESP-DISK PROMO VIDEO #5 – ESP-4069 — PHAROAH SANDERS — BOX SET DISC #3

• Sun Ra – Magic Sun (Phil Niblock, 1966)
• 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