Editing Sun Ra (section)

==Influence and legacy==
Many of Sun Ra's innovations remain important and groundbreaking. Ra was one of the first jazz leaders to use two double basses, to employ the electric bass, to play electronic keyboards, to use extensive percussion and [[polyrhythm]]s, to explore [[Musical mode|modal]] music and to pioneer solo and group [[free improvisation|freeform improvisations]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} In addition, he made his mark in the wider cultural context: he proclaimed the African origins of jazz, reaffirmed pride in black history and reasserted the spiritual and mystical dimensions of music, all important factors in the black cultural/political renaissance of the 1960s.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

[[NRBQ]] recorded "Rocket #9" in 1968 for their debut album on [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]. Sun Ra had given NRBQ's [[Terry Adams (musician)|Terry Adams]] a copy of the song on 45 and told him, "This is especially for you," which Adams reported inspired him to reform the band after a period of inactivity. The band still includes Sun Ra's compositions in their performances, and besides "Rocket #9" have released recordings of "We Travel the Spaceways" and "Love in Outer Space." Several members of the Arkestra have toured with NRBQ over the years, including [[Laurdine Patrick|Pat Patrick]], [[Marshall Allen]], Knoel Scott, Tyrone Hill and Danny Thompson. Adams has joined the Arkestra as their pianist on several tours, most recently during a February 2016 tour of cities in the US southeast.{{cn|date=February 2024}}

[[Detroit]]'s [[MC5]] played a handful of shows with Sun Ra and were influenced by his works immensely. One of their songs from their premiere album ''[[Kick Out the Jams]]'' (1969) featured a track called ''Starship'', which was based on a poem by Ra.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Biggs |first1=Ed |title=CULT '60s: MC5 - 'Kick Out the Jams' |url=https://www.thestudentplaylist.com/mc5-kick-out-the-jams/ |website=thestudentplaylist |date=10 February 2019 |access-date=30 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=MC5 |title=Kick Out The Jams |date=1969 |publisher=Elecktra}}</ref>

Sun Ra was inducted into the [[Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoover |first1=Elizabeth |title=Transcending the Spaceways in the Films of Sun Ra: His Story at the Centenary |journal=Jazz Perspectives |date=4 May 2014 |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=223–231 |doi=10.1080/17494060.2015.1040142 |s2cid=191742777 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17494060.2015.1040142?journalCode=rjaz20 |access-date=1 March 2022 |issn=1749-4060}}</ref>

The ''Sun Ra Repatriation Project'' was started in 2008 with the aim of using interplanetary communication with a view to facilitating Sun Ra's return to planet Earth.<ref>{{cite web |last1=ya Salaam |first1=Kalamu |title=The Sun Ra Repatriation Project |date=October 2015 |url=http://kalamu.com/neogriot/2015/10/18/video-the-sun-ra-repatriation-project/ |access-date=18 October 2015}}</ref>

Filmmaker and visual artist [[Cauleen Smith]] has heavily researched the life and legacy of Sun Ra. Her 2013 exhibition "17" "arises out of [her] research into the legacy of Sun Ra, who was himself a student of numerology and achieved a kind of cultural immortality the number 17 might be said to refer to".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em |title=Cauleen Smith: 17 – Exhibitions – Hyde Park Art Center |publisher=Hydeparkart.org |date=2013-03-10 |access-date=2013-05-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506020220/http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/cauleen-smith-em17em |archive-date=2013-05-06 }}</ref> Her project "The Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band" includes several components related to Sun Ra. "One component (2010) of the project is the production of five flash mob street performances involving a marching band inspired by Sun Ra's Arkestra. The second component of the project... is a full-length video that chronicles the urban legends of Sun Ra’s time in Chicago as well as the contemporary artists who live and work in this city".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://solarflareark.wordpress.com/about/ |title=The Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band is one component of a project being produced by Cauleen Smith as part of an artist-in-residence at threewalls Gallery, Chicago. &#124; The Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band |publisher=Solarflareark.wordpress.com |date=2012-01-12 |access-date=2013-05-20}}</ref>

The "Sun Ra Revival Post-Krautrock Archestra",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://soundcloud.com/heunaevivalostrautrockrchestra |title=The Sun Ra Revival &#124; Free Listening on SoundCloud |website=Soundcloud.com |access-date=2017-01-13 |archive-date=January 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106011518/https://soundcloud.com/heunaevivalostrautrockrchestra |url-status=dead }}</ref> formed in Australia during 2014, paid tribute to Sun Ra's philosophies and musical ideas within their albums ''Realm Beyond Realm'' and ''Sun Ra Kills the World''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artisttrove.com/artist/1016683358383905/The+Sun+Ra+Revival+Post+Krautrock+Archestra |title=The Sun Ra Revival Post Krautrock Archestra from Sydney |website=Artisttrove.com |access-date=2017-01-13}}</ref>

[[The Spatial AKA Orchestra]], formed in 2006 by [[Jerry Dammers]] (the main songwriter of British ska revival band [[The Specials]]), was originally created as a tribute to Sun Ra, borrowing many of the ideas, themes and tropes from Sun Ra's own performances.

In 2022, a building at 5626 Morton Street known as the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra was listed as a historic landmark in the [[Philadelphia Register of Historic Places]]. One of its inhabitants, [[Marshall Allen]], known for his work with [[The Sun Ra Arkestra]], began living there in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/sun-ra-house-in-philadelphia-is-now-a-historic-landmark/|title=Sun Ra House in Philadelphia Is Now a Historic Landmark|date=May 16, 2022|website=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://xpn.org/2019/02/06/encounters-at-the-mothership-brings-expansive-improv-to-west-philly/|title=Encounters at The Mothership brings expansive improv to West Philly|first=Sarah|last= Hojsak|date=February 6, 2019|website=WXPN}}</ref>

The [[University of Chicago]] has an extensive collection of Sun Ra's works and personal items in the Special Collections Research Center at the [[Regenstein Library]]. The collection was assembled by Ra's business manager [[Alton Abraham]] and is open to the public upon request. The Special Collections Research Center has also repeatedly exhibited Sun Ra's work.{{cn|date=February 2024}}