| LC control no. | n 88607003 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML410.S978 Biography PS3569.U49 |
| Personal name heading | Sun Ra |
| Variant(s) | Blount, Herman Ra, Sun Le Sun Ra Ra, Le Sun Le Sony'r Ra Ra, Le Sony'r Blount, Sonny Bourke, Sonny Lee, Herman |
| See also | Founded corporate body: Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Saturn (Planet) |
| Birth date | 1914-05 |
| Death date | 1993-05-30 |
| Place of birth | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Birmingham (Ala.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists Keyboard players |
| Found in | John Cage meets Sun Ra [SR] p1987. Biog. dict. of jazz, c1982 (Sun Ra, pianist, electric keyboardist, leader; b. Herman Blount) Super-sonic sounds [SR] 1974: labels (Le Sun Ra) New Grove dict. of jazz (Sun Ra (Blount, Herman ("Sonny"); Bourke, Sonny; Le Sony'r Ra); b. May 1914, Birmingham, AL) Jazz, 1988 (Sun Ra (aka Herman "Sonny" Blount; name at birth Herman Lee?)) Washington Post 05-31-93 (Sun Ra, 79, d. 05-30-93, Baptist Medical Center-Princeton; dateline Birmingham) Space is the place, 1997: CIP title page (the life and times of Sun Ra) data sheet (Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount; 1914-1993) Wikipedia, viewed 19 August 2014 (died in Birmingham. Claimed to be from Saturn) Space is the place, 2014: credits (The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra; all music arranged, composed and conducted by Sun Ra) accompanying book, page 123 (The Intergalactic Myth-Science Solar Arkestra: Sun Ra, keyboards, declamation) Grove music online, December 11, 2015 (when Herman "Sonny" Blount (technically, Sun Ra was his stage name) changed his name to Le Sony'r Ra, he began calling his band an Arkestra, and this word "appears in dozens of combinations: Myth-Science Arkestra, Solar Arkestra, Intergalactic Arkestra, and so forth") |
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