Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

Synopsis

Herman Poole Blount was born on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, and departed this earth on May 30, 1993, as Sun Ra. Along the way, he became a conscientious objector, legally changed his name to Le Sony’r Ra, forged a vision of a Black Space Age future, created a big band that toured the world and continues to do so to this day, wrote over 1,000 jazz compositions, issued more than 125 self-produced records, pioneered the use of electronic keyboards, and published volumes of broadsheets and poetry.