“I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.”

—  Sun Ra

Interview with Jennifer Rycenga (2 November 1988) http://www.plonsey.com/beanbenders/SUNRA-interview.html

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American jazz composer and bandleader 1914–1993

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