The Sun Ra Arkestra will play the Academy of Music on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. Legendary bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra photographed in 1973. The band he formed, The Arkestra, continues to ...

Marshall Allen has been around for a whole damn century. He was born in 1924. He fought in World War II. In 1958, Allen and his alto saxophone joined the cosmic jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra, and in ...

Celebrate twenty years of music and the work of black artists with a night of performances from Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber at the Brooklyn Museum. Billed as a special concert in conjunction with ...

Legendary Afrofuturist bandleader, composer, and musician Sun Ra had an eye on the cosmos. Though he passed away in 1993, the members of his 13-person musical ensemble, the Sun Ra Arkestra, have since ...