Sun Ra led a rotating big band, the Arkestra, for four decades, blending Ellington-style swing with electronic keyboards, chant, and a self-created cosmic mythology that cast him as a being sent from Saturn to save humanity through music. He gave a young, often-homeless Pharoah Sanders shelter, clothing, and his stage name in the early 1960s, folding him into the Arkestra's communal household on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Equal parts bandleader, philosopher, and showman, his Afrofuturist theater and free-form arrangements anticipated much of what became free and spiritual jazz.

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