Space is the Place!

Line-Up

Reverend Hunter S. Chicken (titan tenor sax)
Pharoannes Rhea Schleiermacher (baritone saxophone, moon synthesizer)
Yorgos Iapetus Hochapfel (sun organ)
Isis Dione Rößler (horsehead nebula bass)
Yan Tethys Leipnitz (starr drums)
ngoma lugundu (baobabs, aegaeon vulcan dance)
& some very special extraterrestrians

Marshall Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed primarily with Sun Ra since the late 1950s. He has led The Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995, following Sun Ra’s passing in 1993 and John Gilmore's death two years later. Critic Jason Ankeny describes Marshall as “one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era.”

Let’s celebrate the birthday of the oldest practicing alto saxophonist and big band leader between the Sun and Jupiter.