The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening by Chris Raschka.
Sun Ra always said he came from Saturn, and was interested in everything musical on earth. Music, he said, is what holds us all together, so he played joyfully all over the world with the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Sun Ra could play piano and notate what he heard at age 11. He read the great philosophers, and was puzzled that 'earthlings' sorted themselves into two varieties: the white variety and the black variety. Sun Ra was one of the first musicians to use an electric keyboard, and he made his own wildly colored and decorated outfits
Chris Raschka's art imaginatively illustrates this colorful, uplifting life story of the famed jazz musician. Discography, too. Don't miss it!
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