Interview with Sun Ra Arkestra Director Marshall Allen

From the Washington City Paper:

There are several “ghost” big bands that have continued performing long after their leaders’ deaths, the Ellington and Basie bands not least among them. But even in this position, the Sun Ra Arkestra is a different breed. Twenty-one years after its founder and visionary departed the planet, the Arkestra’s still as much defined by its original stage presence—with all the costumed flair and outer-space mysticism that entails—as by its music.