We wish Sun Ra’s Arkestra bandleaderMarshall Allen “one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era” a very happy 85th birthday. The bandleader of the fabulous Sun Ra Arkestra, which you have seen at ZXZW 2008 ofcourse.
The spectacular performances of the Sun Ra Arkestra will be remembered for a long time by those happy enough to have witnessed one or more of the 6 perfomances they gave at ZXZW 2008.
On this cool blog you can find several very interesting jazz downloads, and also the most famous movie of Sun Ra: Space [...]
We’re very happy with making such a timeless document possible. Frank says: “It’s a piece of quality where I like to be affiliated with.” Joost says: “Hell yeah, a dream coming through.” Barry says. “I want one!” and Erik already made a couple of tweets about it. Get the cd right here.
In+ Out Records are an Austrian Jazz label, which released record by all the great names in contemporary jazz. They’ve just release a new cd from Sun Ra Arkestra live at Paradox. The liner notes say this: As “Artists in Residence”, the Arkestra performed on five evenings at the Paradox Music Club from September 15th [...]
We had a nice project on ZXZW 2008 called Tiny Accidents by Jacqueline Steck: little accidents with toys over the whole city. Check the results here.
There also was an accident during the Sun Ra Arkestra rehearsal. Check Jacqueline’s video of it here!
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The great Marshall Allen preparing for his performance.
With ZXZW artists like Sun Ra Arkestra, Chops, Todd, Shitmat, Dethscalator, Hey Colossus, Zun Zun Egui, and Arabrot and favourite bands like Acid Mothers Temple, Fucked Up and Gravenhurst the London based Hokaben festival is definately worth a visit. Frank, Tijs and Joost will go there. Hope to see you there!!!
Check it out today. They got five stars!
Or just read it here (if you can read Dutch)
Marshall Allen viert tijdloosheid in een universum van muziek
MUZIEK Zijn ogen priemden de zaal in, hij spoorde zijn musici aan tot energiek doordenderen en hij speelde heerlijk glijdende en sputterende solo’s. Marshall Allen, de leider van het orkest [...]
Aad van Nieuwkerk wrote a piece about the Sun Ra Arkestra on the Radio 6 website. You can also find old Sun Ra material (from 1971 till1990) to download. Saturday night Radio 6 will broadcast the Sun Ra Arkestra show live. Find it all here.
