Picture Set Of The Month - September - The Album Art Of Sun Ra

Sun Ra (1914-93) was America's best kept
secret and the leading exponent of free jazz
from the times of his earliest recordings in the 1940's.  

His first recordings were blues singles but he hit
stride with his Arkestra jazz LP 'Sun Song' in 1957.
Here is an informed article with plenty more of the
record sleeves that so illustrate his sense of space. 

He was a conscientious objector in WW2 and settled 
on doing forestry work in lieu of military service,
White psychiatrists described him as 'Sexually
perverted and a well educated coloured intellectual'.  

Here is a 1976 live version of familiar tune
'Take the A train', which illustrates the avante garde
nature of black futurism, his gift to Black America.
by Sun Ra and his Arkestra