Blog 11 - Sun Ra (by O'Brian Davis)

It is fundamentally correct to say that Sun Ra is at one extreme of the musical spectrum. He is a character, inundated by brightly colored outfits, he has the most bizarre perspectives on music. I however, commend him on taking a path that others had reservations on. Some would say that Jimi Hendrix had a radical view of music before they started accepting his approach. Therefore I believe that every artist should have a different perspective on music an thus a different performance. This will give music the room needed to further develop and appeal to a new audience. Hopefully, in so doing there can be, though seemingly impossible, a sort of musical universality developed - universality in terms of audience satisfaction.