And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. — Sonny Blount (Sun Ra)
…even if this story is revisionist autobiography … Sonny was pulling together several strains of his life. He was both prophesying his future and explaining his past with a single act of personal mythology.– John F. Szwed, Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra (Pantheon, 1997)
Sun Ra: Space Is The Place (1974)
Sun Ra Arkestra: Face The Music (1990)