Sun Ra Bücher

THE IMMEASURABLE EQUATION umfasst alle bisher bekannten, aber auch unbekannte Texte des afro-amerikanischen Dichters und Musikers Sun Ra (1914 - 1993), der, wie kaum ein anderer, auf die Entwicklung des Jazz eingewirkt hat. Der Musiker Sun Ra hat weltweit ein begeistertes Publikum, seine Texte sind aber bisher nur Insidern bekannt. Sun Ra hat konsequent seinen musikalisch-philosophischen Weg verfolgt, einen Weg, der geprägt war von anspruchsvollen musikalischen Werken, verbunden mit einer Spiritualität, die vor allem in seiner Lyrik ihren Ausdruck findet. Als Leiter einer Bigband, die er 40 Jahre lang halten konnte, steht Sun Ra in einer Linie mit Duke Ellington oder Count Basie. Sein massgeblicher Einfluss etwa auf John Coltrane und die Zusammenarbeit mit John Cage oder mit Rockmusikern zeugen von seltener musikalischer Universalität. Das Buch enthält neben fünf einführenden Beiträgen von berufenen Musik- und Literaturwissenschaftlern und Philosophen viele unbekannte Fotos, sowie eine kommentierte Bibliografie von Sun Ra's Privatbibliothek.

This book collects the science-fiction poetry of Sun Ra. The author serves up a traumatic torrent of future shock - deeply personal and critical commentary and unsettling advice to the people of Earth, who fail to acknowledge this planet's role in the universe. Poet Amiri Baraka's foreword, together with science fiction historian Bhob Stewart's introduction, set the stage for the heavy dose of the real and the unreal. This book was collected from tape recordings and transcriptions culled from the Sun Ra Archives by director Michael Anderson, who worked with Norton records to compile a total of six albums - three collections of rare and unissued music recordings (on LP and CD) and another trio (vinyl only) of unissued spoken word Sun Ra. The collection was expanded with the addition of several key "lost" poems which appear here for the first time.

En algún lado y en ninguno is a compilation of poems by the jazz musician and poet Sun Ra (Alabama 1914 – Birmingham 1993), selected and translated into Spanish by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega. The adventure began in a library that looks like a spaceship, next to a monument in the shape of a burned marshmallow that celebrates the first atomic reaction generated by humans. A plaque in the monument suggests that the powerful energy should be used for beneficial purposes. Inside this lunar library is the Special Collections Centre at the University of Chicago, that keeps the archive of Alton Abraham – Sun Ra Collection, comprising the period 1822-2008. Alton Abraham (1927-1999), entrepreneur and hospital technician, was a friend and partner of Sun Ra, and throughout his life he collected manuscripts, ephemera, artifacts, photographs and audio-visual recordings of the work of Sun Ra and his collaborators. Within the archive, which occupies 48 m of linear shelf space (146 boxes and a large folder) we found Sun Ra’s wallet, containing his lawyer’s business card, the insurance receipt for his car, a cabalistic amulet, and a million dollar bill perforated in the center. We also discovered Sun Ra’s typed poems, with handwritten corrections and in various versions. His poems generate a parallel geometry, a world that is precise and ambiguous at the same time. A sidereal enthusiasm made us think that the translation of his poems into our mother tongue could bring us close to his cosmos, and simultaneously allow us to share them with the Spanish-speaking firmament. Selection and translation by Mariana Castillo Deball, Tania Islas Weinstein and Alberto Ortega.