
Artist
Sun Ra
Sun Ra is a musical artist formed in 1914. 108 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 108
- Releases
- 1965–2026
- Active years
- 1914
- Formed

Artist
Sun Ra is a musical artist formed in 1914. 108 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.

Most popular
Space Is the Place
1973 · 5 tracks

The Antique Blacks
1974

A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
2023

Visions
2000

Nidhamu
1971

Somewhere Else
1998

Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack to the Documentary
2026

Hidden Fire
2025

Uncharted Passages
2025

Sleeping Beauty
2025

Stray Voltage
2025

Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
2025

Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC
2024

Excelsior Mill
2024

Pink Elephants On Parade
2024

Omniverse
2023

Ra To The Rescue
2023

Haverford College, Jan. 25th, 1980 (Solo Rhodes Piano)
2023

Ellingtonia (Vol. 1)
2022

Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt
2022

Lanquidity (Definitive Edition)
2021

Dark Myth Equation Visitation
2020

Horizon
2020

The Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra at WUHY, 1978
2019

Pathways to Unknown Worlds
2019

Crystal Spears
2019

Strange Celestial Road
2019

The Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra
2019

Of Mythic Worlds (Remastered 2018)
2018

Pleiades: A Jazz Symphonique (Remastered 2018)
2018

Discpline 99 (Out Beyond the Kingdom Of) (Remastered 2018)
2018

At The Village Vanguard (Live)
2018

Pictures of Infinity
2018

Of Abstract Dreams
2018

Taking a Chance on Chances (Remastered 2018)
2018

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Remastered 2018)
2018

Discipline 27-II
2017

Blues at Midnight: John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 2
2017

Sun Ra Exotica
2017

Kosmos in Blue: John Gilmore Anthology, Vol. 1
2017

Transitions 3: Chicago to NY
2016

Singles
2016

The Soul Vibrations of Man (Remastered 2016)
2016

In Some Far Place: Roma 1977
2016

Cosmos (Remastered 2016)
2016

My Brother the Wind Vol. 1 - Expanded Edition (Remastered 2016)
2016

When Sun Comes Out
2015

Celestial Love
2015

Sun Ra at Inter-Media Arts, 1991
2015

Paris 1983 (Premiere Release)
2015

Gilles Peterson Presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds (Mixed Tracks)
2015

Dance of Innocent Passion
2015

Planets Of Life Or Death: Amiens '73
2015

Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
2015

Sunrise in Different Dimensions
2015

The Pit Inn 8-8-88
2015

Secrets of the Sun
2015

Universe in Blue
2015

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
2015

Fate in a Pleasant Mood
2015

Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth
2015

Purple Night
2015

Oblique Parallax (Remastered)
2015

Angels and Demons at Play
2015

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (vol. 1)
2015

My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
2014

Sub Underground #1
2014

Continuation, Vol. 1
2014

Sun Song
2014

The Nubians of Plutonia
2014

The Night of the Purple Moon
2014

Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow
2014

The Other Side of the Sun
2014

Strange Strings
2014

Interstellar Low Ways
2014

Atlantis
2014

Other Planes of There
2014

Continuation, Vol. 2
2014

Jazz by Sun Ra
2014

Concert for the Comet Kohoutek
2012

The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra (Remastered)
2012

Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
2012

Wake Up Angels
2011

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, vols. 1-3
2010

The Paris Tapes 1971
2010
Disco 3000
2009

The Solar - Myth Approach Vol. 1 & 2
2009
Media Dreams
2008

Live at Montreux
2008
Piano Recital: Teatro la Fenice
2003
The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums
2000
The Magic City
1993
Hidden Fire 1
1988
John Cage Meets Sun Ra
1987
God's Private Eye
1980
Lanquidity
1978
Solo Piano, Volume 1
1977
Astro Black
1972
Monorails and Satellites
1966
Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus
1965
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 1
1965

The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, vol. 2
1965
Of all the jazz musicians, Sun Ra was probably the most controversial. He did not make it easy for people to take him seriously, for he surrounded his adventurous music with costumes and mythology that both looked backward toward ancient Egypt and forward into science fiction. In addition, Ra documented his music in very erratic fashion on his Saturn label, generally not listing recording dates and giving inaccurate personnel information, so one could not really tell how advanced some of his innovations were. It has taken a lot of time to sort it all out (although Robert L. Campbell's Sun Ra discography has done a miraculous job). In addition, while there were times when Sun Ra's aggregation performed brilliantly, on other occasions they were badly out of tune and showcasing absurd vocals. Near the end of his life, Ra was featuring plate twirlers and fire eaters in his colorful show as a sort of Ed Sullivan for the 1980s. But despite all of the trappings, Sun Ra was a major innovator. Born Herman Sonny Blount in Birmingham, AL (although he claimed he was from another planet), Ra led his own band for the first time in 1934. He freelanced at a variety of jobs in the Midwest, working…