Coda was a Canadian jazz magazine founded in 1958 by British-born publisher and record producer John Norris. the frequency of publication varied from monthly to bi-monthly and the circulation was about 3,000. Norris was editor from 1958 to 1976 when he was succeeded by the magazine’s art director Bill Smith. In 2000…
SUN RA
Coda was a Canadian jazz magazine founded in 1958 by British-born publisher and record producer John Norris. the frequency of publication varied from monthly to bi-monthly and the circulation was about 3,000. Norris was editor from 1958 to 1976 when he was succeeded by the magazine’s art director Bill Smith. In 2000…
Re-release of 1986 El Saturn cassette by Post-Materialization Music, St. Petersburg, 2018. The…
Headpress blurb for this book » Composer, bandleader, pianist, poet and philosopher, Sun Ra is one of the most colourful and enduring of musical legacies, transcending time, place and cultural genres. From the mid 1950s until his death in 1993, Sun Ra led The Arkestra, an ensemble with an ever-changing line-up and name which sometimes numbered as many as thirty musicians living and playing together under the despotic tutelage of…
From the sleeve notes by John Sinclair: ‘After the City Council had forbidden the annual Blues & Jazz Festival to take place in Ann Arbor, the organisers, Rainbow Multi-Media, found an alternative venue in Windsor…
Recorded live at the first Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival, September 1972. With first public performance of Space is the Place. From the sleeve notes by John Sinclair: “The best of the Arkestra’s performances…
