2026 press.
Early Sun Ra before the cosmos fully opened up. Still strange, still slippery, but rooted in hard bop swing and off kilter arrangements. You can hear the rules being bent in real time. Less space travel, more side eye. A fascinating document of a mind already heading somewhere else entirely. Essential listening and surprisingly approachable. Class.
FFO
Thelonious Monk, early Cecil Taylor, Art Blakey deeper cuts, Eric Dolphy, Mingus moments
