Sun Ra & the Arkestra at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1969
Jazz Visions Archives Photo/courtesy of Richard Walton

Sun Ra July 1973, San Francisco

Sun Ra Piano Reflection, July 1973, San Francisco

Sun Ra at the One World Family Berkeley, November 1974

John Gilmore at the One World Family Berkeley, November 1974

Sun Ra at The Bayou, DC, November 3, 1978

Sun Ra and June Tyson, at the Bayou, Washington, DC, 1978

Sun Ra, Marshall Allen & Michael Ray, at the Bayou, Washington, DC, 1978

Sun ra at the Pension Building, Dc, January 23, 1982

Sun Ra & the Arkestra at the Kool Jazz Festival, June 5, 1983, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

Sun Ra,cosmic Costume Ball Montage, Old Post Office Pavilion, DC, Halloween, October 28, 1984

Sun Ra,Cosmic Costume Ball, Old Post Office Pavilion, DC, Halloween, October 28, 1984

Sun Ra Arkestra at d.c. space October 11, 1986 Marshall Allen, Ronald Wilson, Tyrone Hill, John Gilmore

Sun Ra at d.c. space October 11, 1986

Sun Ra and John Gilmore, December 27, 1988 at the 930 Club, DC

Sun Ra and June Tyson, Wolf Trap Barns, April 21, 1990

Sun Ra Arkestra, at Wolf Trap June 22, 1991

	Sun Ra last performance in DC First Congregational Church, April 11, 1992
	Marshall Allen, April 11, 1992

	Poet Trudy Morse, John Gilmore with the Arkestra, DC, May 15, 1993
	Billy Bang with the Arkestra, DC, May 15, 1993
	John Gilmore with tstarry skyhe Arkestra, DC, May 15, 1993

	Arkestra at the DC World Jazz Festival, July 3, 1993
	John Gilmore and Marshall Allen with the Arkestra at the 1993 DC World Jazz Festival

Sun Ra Arkestra at the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, in the Philadelphia on October 16, 1993 Fred Adams, Michael Ray, John Gilmore, Ahmed Abdullah, and Marshall Allen

Sun Ra Arkestra at the Underground Railroad, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1996

Sun Ra Tribute at the 1998 Chicago Jazz Festival

The Arkestra at the 1999 Vision Festival

Sun Ra Arkestra at the Knitting Factory, NYC, March 11, 2000

Marshall Allen with Arkestra, May 6, 2000 at the State Theater, Falls Church, VA

Sun Ra Arkestra at Coppin State University, October 19, 2003

Marshall Allen 80th birthday with the Arkestra at the 2004 Vision Festival

The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen at the 2009 Vision Festival

Along Came Ra was a 3-day celebration Of all things Sun Ra on the 30th anniversary of the 1984 Halloween Cosmic Costume Ball at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, DC. I photographed the 1984 costume contest winner then and it was incorporated into the ads and flyers for the weekend. The weekend featured the Sun Ra Arkestra concert Halloween night, with special guest Bernie Worrell. There was a street parade with costumes and musicians, and Januwa Moja's fashion show with the Arkestra jamming Space Is The Place while the ladies strutted across the stage. My photos were be exhibited at the Pop-Up Museum, where Marshall Allen, Danny Thompson, Januwa, and Bill Warrell delivered the artist's talk, moderated by Dr. Thomas Stanley. Sunday night, a group from the Burnt Sugar Arkestra presented an entire program of Sun Ra's music at Liv, upstairs from the Bohemian Caverns.

The CD (no longer available) of 1966 dialogues and meditations between the poet and Sun Ra
set to recordings of the Arkestra live at Slug's Saloon.
The cover photo of Ra is mine.

The Stars Wear My T-Shirt Designs!!
This item from Billboard magazine shows Derek Trucks, the Allman Brothers guitarist,
wearing the Sun Ra T-shirt with my photos.
Click on the link for an enlargement.

The Sun Ra Montage T-Shirt with my photo montage is no longer available,
Delta Haze Jazz-N-Blues Tees has gone out of business.

For more information go to the official website of the Sun Ra Arkestra

Additional Sun Ra links: Saturn - Sun Ra archive by Moudry Sun Ra Arkive: Exclusive Complete Interview with Irwin Chusid, Administrator for Sun Ra LLC Sun Ra online discography Sun RA Arkestra on Facebook.

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