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Phill Niblock.

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Publication Date: 01-SEP-06 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Phill Niblock.(The Magic Sun: A Film)(Video recording review)

Article Excerpt
Phill Niblock. The Magic Sun: A Film. DVD. With Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra. [N.p.]: Atavistic Video, 2005. DJ-861. $14.99.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) is at once a legendary and an obscure figure in the history of jazz. He is revered by aficionados of "avant-garde" jazz, but--unlike Ornette Coleman or Cecil Taylor--he appears regularly in jazz scholarship and jazz history textbooks. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he first attracted attention as a mainstream jazz pianist and arranger in Chicago during the late 1940s. He played in Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra (1946-47), Gene Wright's Dukes of Swing (1947-48), and briefly accompanied Coleman Hawkins. At around the same time, Sun Ra became interested in the history of ancient Egypt. His extensive examination of this civilization led him to develop what Graham Lock has dubbed his "Astro Black Mythology,"...

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