#Marshall Allen

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Marshall Allen (photo by Perihan Merdivan)

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Sun Ra Arkestra's 99-year-old director says musical inspiration keeps him energized

Marshall Allen joined Sun Ra's experimental jazz group in the 1950s. Recently, the Germantown resident celebrated his 99th birthday with a sold out tour.

Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshall Allen Live in New Orleans - Space is the Place 

Filmed by WWOZ at the Music Box Village in New Orleans on November 17, 2018

Out There A Minute with Marshall Allen

A brief but insightful probe into the mind of musician, philosopher, and Philadelphian, Marshall Allen, this film visits the current leader of Sun Ra's Arkestra in the Germantown rowhome that has been the group's headquarters since the late 1960s. From here, Allen continues to share Sun Ra's music and ideas with the world.

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Wolf Eyes + Marshall Allen & David Hotep, Saturn's Day, 4/20/2024

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SPACE IS THE PLACE: Marshall Allen Talks About His Time With The Sun Ra Arkestra

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Marshall Allen: 100 Solar Returns!

Technically tomorrow but I just couldn't wait! This photo was posted today on IG by Art Yard Records who adds:

The Maestro Marshall Allen celebrates his 🎈arrival day🎈 at home with The Sun Ra Arkestra, born in Louisville Kentucky on May 25th 1924, he has been with The Arkestra since the late 50s as a performer and has been leading the band since 1995.. He is well known for his artistic genius and mastery of the Alto Saxophone with explosive 🧨 ‘experimental’ pyrotechnic solos from another dimension. Marshall is also a composer and conductor, cosmic voyager, alter destiny adventurer, epidemiologist, metaphysics multiverse metaphysician, stargazer and a spiritual tone scientist.🌙💫🌞🔥 🚀 We are truly blessed to have him here with us.🕊

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Exploring the Avant-Garde: Sun Ra's "Jazz in Silhouette"

Introduction: Sun Ra’s “Jazz in Silhouette” stands as a testament to the innovative spirit and boundless creativity of pianist-composer Sun Ra and His Arkestra. Recorded in 1959 during their Chicago period, this album marks a significant moment in Ra’s career, showcasing a blend of traditional jazz elements with avant-garde explorations that would come to define his later…

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The Sun Ra Arkestra, Nublu, East Village, 2023

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Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky - the new album is out TODAY on Omni Sound

For more than two decades, the disciple that has most visibly carried on Sun Ra Arkestra’s legacy and sound is their musical director, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, the iconic fire breather and life force that restored the Arkestra’s vitality in the massive vacuum left by Ra and John Gilmore’s death in the ‘90s. Allen turned 98 in 2022 and, as evidenced by Living Sky, his influence and leadership remain undiminished. Marking the Arkestra’s first new recording since their 2021 Grammy-nominated album Swirling, Living Sky was recorded on June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks in Philadelphia and features a total of nineteen musicians, including a strings section. It was mixed and mastered by three-time Grammy winner Dave Darlington (Eddie Palmieri, Brian Lynch, Wayne Shorter). Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen - Alto Saxophone, Kora, EVI Knoel Scott - Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone Nasir P. Dickerson - Tenor Saxophone Chris Hemingway - Tenor Saxophone Michael Ray - Trumpet Cecil Brooks - Trumpet Vincent Chancey - French Horn Dave Davis - Trombone Robert Stringer - Trombone Farid Barron - Piano Dave Hotep - Guitar Tyler Mitchell - Bass Wayne Anthony Smith, Jr - Drums Ron McBee - Percussion Jorge Silva - Percussion Elson Nascimento - Percussion Tara Middleton - Violin, Flute Gwen Laster - Violin Melanie Dyer - Viola Kash Killion - Cello, Sarangi Dedicated to the legacy of Sun Ra (1914-1993) Bandleader, composer, arranger, keyboard player, poet, philosopher and cosmonaut. In memory of Hartmut Geerken (1939- 2021) German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Mehmet Ulug (1959-2013) Turkish producer & promoter, Omni’s pathway to Sun Ra.

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“Germantown, near Philadelphia, is your average small town in the north-eastern US. Some blocks boast palatial mansions, others contain boarded-up tenements. Then there are the “row houses” connected in a continuous line. They can be difficult to tell apart, but one has a very particular history. 5626 Morton Street is where Sun Ra lived from the late 1960s until his death in 1993. It’s also the place several members of his astonishing jazz ensemble, the Arkestra, still call home.”

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Marshall Allen, 99 today!

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Kim Gordon and Sun Ra Arkestra at Central Park SummerStage

On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage presented a free concert at Rumsey Playfield featuring a stellar bill: Kim Gordon, Sun Ra Arkestra, and Slauson Malone 1.

On July 4, 1992, Sonic Youth and Sun Ra Arkestra performed a free show on the same stage in Central Park and over 30 years later, Gordon mentioned that concert during her set in support of her second solo album, The Collective. SRA also performed the following night with her Matador Records labelmates, Yo La Tengo, as a part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Sun Ra Arkestra’s current band leader, Marshall Allen, recently celebrated his 100th birthday.

I covered this special show for Impose Magazine and the full gallery is now available on their website here.

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"Bedlam Blues" by Red Hot Org, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Hicks, Marshall Allen, Immanuel Wilkins, Stuart Bogie https://ift.tt/IkoEn3J

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American centenarian jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Marshall Allen (born 1924) photographed when he was 90. Allen was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra, the free jazz orchestra first formed in the 1950's, any proper history of which would by labyrinthine beyond all comprehension.

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Out There A Minute with Marshall Allen