Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise (Blu-Ray)

A Joyful Noise
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For his hour long documentary, Robert Mugge spent two years shooting Sun Ra and members of his so-called Jazz Arkestra in a wide variety of situations. Years ahead of his time, composer, keyboard player, bandleader, poet, and philosopher Sun Ra coupled images of outer space with those of ancient Egypt, acoustic instruments with electronic ones, and modern American musical genres with the sounds of Africa and the Caribbean - all while combining his music with dance, poetry, colorful costumes and backdrops, and pure theatricality.

Ensemble performances were filmed at Baltimore's Famous Ballroom, at Danny's Hollywood Palace in Philadelphia, and on the roof of Philadelphia's International House on the edge of the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sun Ra's poetry and mythological pronouncements were filmed in the Egyptian Room of the University of Pennsylvania's anthropology museum, in a sculpture garden in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, in front of the White House in Washington, D.C, and inside and outside of the house he shared with key band members in the Germantown section of Philadelphia.

With band interviews and rehearsals joining the performances, the documentary is a must-watch for any Sun Ra fanatic!