For any Sun Ra fans in the crowd, please check out Phil Cohran. He was best known for playing trumpet in the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago from 1959 to 1961, but h

For any Sun Ra fans in the crowd, please check out Phil Cohran. He was best known for playing trumpet in the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago from 1959 to 1961, but he has some really amazing solo material. His catalog is somewhat limited, but it's uniformly excellent. Two of his records, "on the beach", and "the spanish suite" are streamable in their entirety on youtube. For a quick introduction, check out his single, "frankiphone blues" (also on youtube).