Sun Ra - Nothing is...Completed and Revisited

2022

Sun Ra piano, Marshall Allen alto saxophone, John Gilmore tenor saxophone, Pat Patrick baritone saxophone, Robert Cummings bariton clarinet,  Ali Hassan trombone, Teddy Nance trombone, Carl Nimrod sun horn & gong, Ronnie Boykins double bass & tuba, James Jackson log drum & flute & Clifford Jarvis drums.

Remastered by Michael Brändli bringing to light never heard parts of the music.

Attempts to dismiss Sun Ra as an “outsider” artist, an eccentric who made strange claims, are always own goals. Of course he was an outsider. That was precisely his point. And not just an outsider. He came from so far away we could not imagine it. But he also came from right inside American culture and was deeply shaped by it. There is perhaps no more representative an American artist of the modern period. If the Saturn V rocket was the symbol one kind of hegemony, governed by the dollar and the slide rule, the Arkestra was its joyous, subversive retort. Next stop for NASA seems to be Mars, but he got there first. – Brian Morton