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Writer, Performer, Consultant for Media, Television, Radio

Writer, Performer, Consultant for Media, Television, Radio

Television, Radio:

Sun Ra Centenary: BBC Broadcasts, BBC Radio 4, 2015
Brother From Another Planet: The Sun Ra Story, BBC Four, 2005
Advisor, American Routes, Public Radio International, 2003-
Music Critic, Terry Gross’s Fresh Air, National Public Radio, 1980-1982

Film:

Performer, The Sun Ra Repatriation Project, Kapwani Kiwanga, director. 1998
Adviser, Paris is Burning (1990)
Adviser, Say Amen, Somebody (1982)
Adviser, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Tennessee Williams, author, Jody Markell, dir.) 2008
Performer and Advisor, Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2026)

Recordings Produced:

Rashied Ali, Myra Melford, Joe McPhee, et al. The October Revolution in Jazz. Evidence 22166
Borah Bergman, Anthony Braxton, and Peter Brötzmann. Eight By Three. Mixtery 0001

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