Kronos Quartet, the avant-garde chamber-music mavens, call in some big hitters for an unruly look at an American genius.
series, the long-running AIDS activist group Red Hot Organization tapped bassist Meshell Ndegeocello to craft a gripping personal narrative from the work of pioneering jazz pianist/bandleader/philosopherThe Sun Ra Arkestra, the ensemble Ra led for nearly 40 years until his death in 1993, was a big band in fact if not always in, and Kronos has called in a wealth of collaborators to match Ra’s boisterous, galaxy-expanding sound.
The panoply of talent results in an extravagant, unpredictable, and sometimes chaotic set capturing some, if not all, of Ra’s wide-ranging work—a catalog that reached back to the swanky swing of Duke Ellington and ahead to the otherworldly electronic symphonies of the still-distant future, with stops in free improvisation, Disney ballads, and fusion along the way.
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