Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

The Philadelphia bandleader didn't always connect with traditional jazz audiences, but he found a second home doing so in Baltimore. A new double album revisit a show he and his "Arkestra" gave there.

Ra Ra Riot are back with their first song in five years. Listen to “The Wish” below. Rostam Batmanglij, whose former Vampire Weekend bandmates are playing a handful of shows with Ra Ra Riot, co-wrote ...

The song Ra Ra Rasputin, the iconic 1978 hit by Boney M, was a major success when it first debuted, and then unexpectedly made a comeback in 2021, becoming a viral sensation among Gen Z. The catchy ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jazz historian Kevin Whitehead is going to review a newly released recording of a concert he attended in 1978 by pianist Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Kevin says the colorful ...