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Sun ra in Century 21 at JAZZforum Series at University of the District of Columbia
Courtesy of Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives | Posted on September 12, 2014
Where
University of the District of Columbia
JAZZforum Series
4200 Connecticut Ave Nw
Washington, DC
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When
Wed, October 22, 2014
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Sun Ra Arkestra
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Author Thomas Stanley's monograph, The Execution of Sun Ra, is an attempt to bore into the late jazz oracle's remarkable ideas about history and human development. Having declared time officially ended, Sun Ra circled the globe for a half-century with an unprecedented artistic sensibility that reconciled traditionalisms and futurisms through a trademark performance vessel he christened the Arkestra. Titled in homage to a Sun Ra pun on the double meaning of the English word execute, Dr. Stanley's work offers a vigorous intellectual response to Sun Ra's thickly layered take on the condition and fate of intelligent life on Earth...