This quote is taken from the following interview:
https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/
Another quote: "Sun Ra and I did get along from that point on."
https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/
Another quote: "Sun Ra and I did get along from that point on."
I mean, he evoked sailor superstition to claim women were bad luck on a ship. Talk about old-fashioned.
As far out as the music was, everything about him was fabricated, but music and mystique aside, it’s still disappointing to again see an African-American man contributing to the marginalization of women, a long tradition that ought to be understood just as well as the contribution to culture.