Marshall Allen (sun ra arkestra) - new dawn
two days after his 100th birthday, marshall allen started recording 'new dawn', his debut solo album. a member of sun ra’s arkestra since 1958, allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. throughout his nearly seventy-year career, allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, 'new dawn' seems to herald a new beginning. a love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond. one of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, allen continues to deliver durational feats during the arkestra’s gigs. still, the compositional energy contained on 'new dawn' is striking.new dawn is clearly an extension of ra’s legacy and sound, but it’s also a masterful endeavour filtered through allen’s tastes and approach
two days after his 100th birthday, marshall allen started recording 'new dawn', his debut solo album. a member of sun ra’s arkestra since 1958, allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. throughout his nearly seventy-year career, allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, 'new dawn' seems to herald a new beginning. a love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond. one of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, allen continues to deliver durational feats during the arkestra’s gigs. still, the compositional energy contained on 'new dawn' is striking.new dawn is clearly an extension of ra’s legacy and sound, but it’s also a masterful endeavour filtered through allen’s tastes and approach
two days after his 100th birthday, marshall allen started recording 'new dawn', his debut solo album. a member of sun ra’s arkestra since 1958, allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. throughout his nearly seventy-year career, allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, 'new dawn' seems to herald a new beginning. a love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond. one of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, allen continues to deliver durational feats during the arkestra’s gigs. still, the compositional energy contained on 'new dawn' is striking.new dawn is clearly an extension of ra’s legacy and sound, but it’s also a masterful endeavour filtered through allen’s tastes and approach