Dimensions
129 x 198 x 30mm
When Sun Ra died in 1993 at the age of seventy-nine, the New York Times called him "one of the greats" while Rolling Stone described him as "the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy".Pianist, composesr, bandleader, poet and philosopher, Sun Ra took his name from an ancient Egyptian god, claimed the planet Saturn as his spiritual home and insisted that he was sent to Earth to try and save the world. While he made a lifelong effort to obscure many of the facts of his life, John Szwed has succeeded brilliantly in delving into and evoking the times and work of this extraordinary artist.
