“Sun Ra died in 1993 (or he returned to his home planet of Saturn, one or the other). Twenty-seven years later his Arkestra is still going strong. ‘No group in jazz history has embodied the communal spirit like the Arkestra,’
writes Peter Margasak at The Quietus. ‘Their hardcore fans are the closest thing jazz has to Deadheads.’ We could further compare Sun Ra and Jerry Garcia as bandleaders—their embrace of extended free form playing against a background of traditionalism. Folk, and country in Garcia’s case and big band swing in the work of the man born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914. ...”
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