Marshall Allen
Marshall Belford Allen is a native Kentuckian born in Louisville on May 25, 1924. He is most famously known for his avant-garde jazz and free jazz work with bandleader / keyboardist Sun Ra, with whom he recorded from the late 1950s until Ra's passing in 1993. Allen plays the alto saxophone, oboe, piccolo, flute, and EVI. Aside from Sun Ra's Arkestra, Allen recorded with Paul Bley's band in 1964 and Olatunji's group in the mid-1960s. Allen has been the Arkestra's bandleader since the deaths of Ra and John Gilmore.
Space Is the Place
as Arkestra memberSun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims...
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Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
as HimselfRobert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington,...
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The Magic Sun
as uncreditedMulti-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by...
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Mystery Mister Ra
as uncreditedSun Ra, Archie Shepp and company in concert in Paris, 1984. Documents performances and...
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