{"id":328,"date":"2017-02-13T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=328"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:47:12","slug":"space-is-the-place-the-lives-and-times-of-sun-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Space Is the Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306808552\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/61wlCA9URAL._SL1000_-e1719156688205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-722\" \/><\/a><strong>John F. Szwed (1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Blount (1914\u20131993), has been hailed as &#8220;one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz&#8221; (New York Times) and as &#8220;the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy&#8221; (Rolling Stone). Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn, Sun Ra led his &#8220;Intergalactic Arkestra&#8221; of thirty-plus musicians in a career that ranged from boogie-woogie and swing to be-bop, free jazz, fusion, and New Age music. This definitive biography reveals the life, philosophy, and musical growth of one of the twentieth century&#8217;s greatest avant-garde musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John F. Szwed (1998) Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Blount (1914\u20131993), has been hailed as &#8220;one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz&#8221; (New York Times) and as &#8220;the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/?p=328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24,16,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-biography","category-music","category-myth","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mazamedia.com\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}