Sun Ra

The Sun Ra interview that was originally published in May 1970 is reprinted in the current June issue of Downbeat. Excerpt:

The question from the interviewer is basically, what is the relationship between Sun Ra's music and jazz?

"The intergalactic phase of music touches upon many points. For instance, everything is everything and outside of that is nothing. So in order to deal with the infinity, I would have to deal with the nothings and the everythings, of which each one has its different potentials. Then, after that, each one has it multi-potentials; and after that each one has its purposelessness, like the whole infinity of the duality everything. There is no purpose... because if purpose is considered by some as an end, then endlessness to others would mean without purpose. Infinity, however purposeless, does not hesitate to sponsor infinity idea-projects."