{"id":12452,"date":"2021-06-24T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T18:07:42","slug":"riverwest-radio-takes-us-back-to-the-magical-times-when-sun-ra-dwelt-on-this-planet-and-visited-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12452","title":{"rendered":"Riverwest Radio revisits magical times when Sun Ra dwelt on this planet and visited Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sun Ra (center at keyboard) and members of his Arkestra, including (L-R) Marshall Allen, John Gilmore and June Tyson.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Space is the Place!” Belated thanks to Elizabeth Vogt, the multi-talented and enlightened host of “Artful Lives” airing Mondays at 3 p.m. on WXRW Riverwest Radio. 104.1 FM. She produced, edited and hosted a two-part interview episode with me about the extraordinarily “cosmic” jazz bandleader Sun Ra, based notably on my experiences interviewing and reviewing him in the 1980s, especially for his 1982 appearance at the Milwaukee Jazz Gallery, the precursor to the Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts, for which her program benefits. It was a blast (-off into outer space!). The first episode (linked below) is also available in Elizabeth’s recent WXRW archives. The second episode airs Monday at 3.<\/p>\n

Besides the program, the link page includes photos of Sun Ra and his long-time fellow traveler, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, who leads the current Sun Ra Arkestra; a scanned review of Sun Ra I wrote from 1982; and links to Sun Ra YouTube videos.<\/p>\n

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