Sun Ra, an Alabama native and pioneering force in jazz music, will be honored in his home state with a new, multi-day ...

The Sun Ra Festival would honor the life, music and legacy of Birmingham's legendary jazz composer, bandleader and mythical ...

SCOTT: There are certain types of Sun Ra songs that are mantra songs, it’s the only way I can explain it. But it’s not an Egyptian or Indian mantra thing, it’s an African-American mantra ...

Then, by the time of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the well-known sun god Ra became the primary symbol of the Egyptian solar cult. Fourth dynasty rulers even typically adopted a suffix to their ...

A rare total solar eclipse that darkened the skies of ancient Egypt in 2471 ... included the suffix “Ra,” and their monumental burial complexes, which mirrored the sun’s eternal cycle ...

Daniel Spicer gets to grips with a lavish six album set documenting the first two concerts Sun Ra played outside of North America A half-hour taxi ride inland from Nice on the Côte d’Azur, in the ...

The other thing he did, the way they dressed in that Egyptian look ... the song also gave its name to a feature-length film that Sun Ra and his group filmed in 1972. Mixing live footage with ...