Dressing in flowing, priestly robes and solemnly claiming to originate from the planet Saturn, pianist/composer/bandleader/all-around jazz guru Sun Ra made music of enigmatic, magisterial beauty for half a century. Beginning his career in Chicago in the 1940s, Ra soon assembled the Arkestra, a tightly-knit group of musicians that would stay together in one form or another for the next fifty years. With adventurous ease, they handled his unorthodox, exploratory compositions that combined elements of Swing, Bop, and avant-garde music. His delicate, cosmic late-'50s compositions turned to urgent atonality in the '60s, thriving upon all the disparate musical elements which his material encompassed: searing, carnival-like organ and synth solos, West African rhythms, twittering Chamber Music passages, howling Free Jazz solos, rousing Big Band anthems, lovely Swing melodies, and the otherworldly singing of June Tyson. Sometimes, band members would take the microphone to preach a cosmic, Afrocentric consciousness which inspired many political movements of the day. Though Sun Ra left this planet in 1993, his music is here to stay.

ART FORMS OF DIMENSIONS TOMORROW	BAD AND BEAUTIFUL	COMPLETE ESP-DISKÂ’ RECORDINGS	CONCERT FOR THE COMET KOHOUTEK
COSMIC TONES FOR MENTAL THERAPY/ART FORMS FOR DIMMENSIONS TOMORROW	CRY OF JAZZ	FATE IN A PLEASANT MOOD	HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF
HOLIDAY FOR SOUL-DANCE	HOURS AFTER	IT IS FORBIDDEN	IT'S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD
LANQUIDITY	LIFE IS SPLENDID	LIVE AT MONTREAUX -	LIVE IN PARIS AT THE GIBU
MONORAILS AND SATELLITES	MY BROTHER THE WIND 2	NIGHT OF THE PURPLE MOON	NOTHING IS
NUBIANS OF PLUTONIA	NUITS DE LA FONDATION MAE	OTHER PLANES OF THERE	OUTER SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED
SOLAR MYTH APPROACH VOLUME 2	SOLAR-MYTH APPROACH - VOL 2	SOLO PIANO RECITAL	SOUND OF JOY
SOUND SUN PLEASURE!!	SPACESHIP LULLABY	STRANGE CELESTIAL ROAD	SUPER-SONIC SOUNDS
VISITS PLANET EARTH	WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS/BAD AND BEAUTIFUL	WHEN SUN COMES OUT	Solo Piano, Volume 1
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2	The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1	Nothing Is...	The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Nidhamu	The Antique Blacks	Media Dreams	Hidden Fire 1
The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums	Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus	Piano Recital: Teatro la Fenice	Astro Black
Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold	God's Private Eye	The Creator of the Universe	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.1
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol.2	My Brother the Wind II	A Quiet Place in the Universe	We Travel the Spaceways
Cosmic Equation	Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold	Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy / Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow	Cosmo Sun Connection
Oblique Parallax	A Fireside Chat With Lucifer	The Singles 1954-1960 (disc 1)	Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways
The Other Side of the Sun	The Singles 1960-1982 (disc 2)	The Singles (disc 1)	Ra to the Rescue
Dance of Innocent Passion	Purple Night	St. Louis Blues (Solo Piano)