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Happy Birthday Sun Ra!!

May 22, 2016

May 22, 2016 - May 30, 1993 102 years ago today, stars fell on Alabama and out of the debris emerged a brown baby boy, who would be named Herman Poole Blount. We knew him as the intergalactic traveler, philosopher and master musician, Sun Ra. To celebrate his birthday, we share PJP Mixtape Series - Sun Ra Edition Vol 3, featuring Read More....

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The stuff McCoy Tyner did was earth-shattering for me. The modal thing, the way he voiced chords in fourths, the way he used the pentatonic scale -- all those things were very new.
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