▼ more info below ▼
Sun Ra - A Joyful Noise
🔔 Subscribe & turn on notifications for the greatest music: / @qwesttv
🎥 Find more documentaries in our playlist: • DOCUMENTARIES | Qwest TV
📺 Watch
📍On Smart TV with our 24h TV channels: qwest.tv/how-to-watch
📍On any device with 1.300+ concerts, documentaries and legendary performances: videos.qwest.tv/
About:
Sun Ra lived as a true jazz renegade at a time when Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk flourished. He was idiosyncratic both in personality and his eclectic music. He was forthright in his enigmatic self-estimation as an alien from the planet Saturn who came to earth on a mission to preach peace.
Renowned documentary film director Robert Mugge decided to spend three years peering into the life of the colorful Sun Ra and his rowdy band mates. One reviewer wrote of the underappreciated and relatively unknown 1980 film, Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, that it was not only “a performance film, but also as a record of the famous composer, keyboardist, bandleader’s purposely odd personal and professional life.”
Mugge captures the dramatic Sun Ra in conversation as he expounds on his Afrofuturistic mythology and his adventures with his big band Intergalactic Omniverse Arkestra. He also notes that “mystery is my story.” The ecstatic multi-horn, multi-percussion band is captured during rehearsals and in concert at two clubs (at Philadelphia’s Danny’s Hollywood Palace and in Baltimore at the Famous Ballroom). Tunes included “Astro Black,” “Along Came Ra,” “We Travel the Spaceways” and “Requiem for Trevor Johnson (Discipline 27).”
Follow Qwest TV
Website: videos.qwest.tv/
Facebook: / qwesttv
Twitter: / qwest_tv
Instagram: / qwest.tv
Qwest TV is a hand-picked treasure trove of exciting live concerts of the greatest musicians of all time featuring artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ms Lauryn Hill, Robert Glasper, Bill Frisell, Anderson Paak, Louis Cole and many more. Dive into the culture and history of music with our compelling music documentaries, interviews, and rare archive gems of Chet Baker, Max Roach, or Chuck Berry.
We’re a global hub where the best of jazz, blues, funk and hip hop sit on the same stage as bossa nova, electronic, african music, indian raga and more! Step into a multicultural world curated by the one and only Quincy Jones who has already worked with Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, and Aretha Franklin. Together with his Qwest TV team as well as legendary musicians from all over the world, Quincy Jones offers a special experience for music lovers hungry to connect to something new and unexpected.
#SunRa #Documentary #QwestTV #QuincyJones #AJoyfulNoise #jazz