Purple Art
[07/09/2014]
“Sun Ra, When Sun Comes Out” at David Nolan Gallery, New York
In May 2014, the world celebrated the hundredth birthday of musician, bandleader, composer and thinker, Sun Ra, whose terrestrial existence began in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914 and ended in 1993. Sun Ran was a jazz musician who combined a sense of vangaurdism and tradition in equal measures, reveling in the pageantry and buoyancy of 1920s big-bands like Fletcher Henderson and […]
