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Máire New Is First Alaskan to Attend Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow
Landmark Outsider Preservationist, WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid, Talks Sun Ra 'Mastered for iTunes' Reissues in Exclusive Interview
Sun Ra fans around the globe should be on the edge of their seats for the latest update to the Ra canon. Irwin Chusid, administrator for Sun Ra LLC, recently released the first batch of over 20 Sun Ra "Mastered for iTunes" reissues, as part of an archive that has proven very difficult to obtain. Jazz in the Philippines: Manila's Music Scene Sounds Uniquely American, But Remains Underground
Jazz may be an American invention, but its outreach to nations beyond the pond can be measured through history. On such occasion, the latest budding jazz scene comes to us from The Philippines, where colonizers smuggled the sounds into the country as far back as 1898.
