Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra leonard cohen Our Band Could Be Your

Our Band Could Be Your Life

" The Guardian

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he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London’s rhythm and blues clubs

The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia

Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra leonard cohen Our Band Could Be Yourby Professor John Szwed (Author) Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra aka Herman Blount was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn. He recorded over 200 albums with his Arkestra, which, dressed in Egypto space costumes, played everything from boogie woogie and swing to fusion and free jazz. John Szwed's Space is the Place is the definitive biography