Arkestra

India Cooke recalled the Arkestra arriving at a symphony rehearsal in France where they'd been commissioned to work with the orchestra.

The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Ken Bullock 2010

Other members of the Sun Ra Arkestra have played with NRBQ, by the way, and I think that the second member of the Sun Ra Arkestra besides Sun Ra was a guy named "Pat" Patrick who I think is from your neighborhood, in the Davenport area.

Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single Mike Ragogna 2011

Dammers originally conceived the band as a Sun Ra Arkestra tribute but its success has led him to stretch the programme a lot further; they're likely nowadays to thump out a theatrical version of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, bits of Erik Satie, and the Batman theme, as well as Specials and Sun Ra classics.

This week's new live music 2011

The climactic event features the Ayn Sof Arkestra and Bigger Band, directed by saxophonist and "Jazz Rabbi" Greg Wall , a large aggregation with so much star power that you're going to need more candles for your Menorah before the night is through.

Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays Will Friedwald 2011

By merging the rubbery beats of Sly and the Family Stone and the intergalactic theatrics of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Mr. Clinton and his 30-member P-Funk band have leveraged the genre to Mardi Gras levels.

Auld Lang Syne—With a Backbeat 2011

When the Arkestra flies into the Cafe Oto from whatever galaxy it inhabits, it'll probably spend a while searching for the plot, and then build a compelling mixture of drama and vaudeville out of it.

This week's new live music 2011

Other members of the Sun Ra Arkestra have played with NRBQ, by the way, and I think that the second member of the Sun Ra Arkestra besides Sun Ra was a guy named "Pat" Patrick who I think is from your neighborhood, in the Davenport area.

Mike Ragogna: Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ's Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer's New Video and Hot Water Music's New Single Mike Ragogna 2011

Just for their gravity-defying headgear, anti-corporate lifestyle, and the claimed capacity for interplanetary travel of their late founding father, the Sun Ra Arkestra would have been a jazz legend even if it hadn't played a note.

This week's new live music 2011

Though Reid continued to work with Sun Ra's Arkestra ensemble and partner such leading jazz saxophonists as Sam Rivers, Archie Shepp and David Murray, as well as playing percussion on Davis's Tutu album in 1986, he played little in his 40s and 50s.

Steve Reid obituary 2010

Not nearly as funny as Louis Farrakhan's calypso career, but Sun Ra and various Arkestra members on a limbo album is still pretty danged funny anyway.

How Low Can You Go, Sun Ra? baikinange 2010