Jazz musician Marshall Allen, 98, will not participate in the Sun Ra Arkestra scheduled concerts in Leiria, Coimbra, Lisbon and Braga, for health reasons, promoter Unha announced today. Marshall Allen [que lidera a Sun Ra Arkestra] he is hospitalized and, therefore, unable to travel to Portugal”, said the promoter, in a publication on the social network Facebook.
According to Unha, the presentation scheduled for Sunday at the José Lúcio da Silva Theater in Leiria “maintains the presence of the also legendary Knoel Scott and Elson Nascimento in the cosmic mission.” On the other three dates (Coimbra, 22, Lisbon, 23, Braga, 24), Vincent Chancey will also take the stage as the third member of Sun Ra Arkestra, a group founded by Sun Ra in the 1950s.
Ambrose Akinmusire and Marshall Allen perform at Jazz ao Centro in Coimbra
Vincent Chancey, a trumpeter from Chicago, has been a member of Sun Ra Arkestra since 1976, having collaborated with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock and Carla Bley.
Marshall Allen leads Sun Ra Arkestra, a group active for more than 60 years, since 1993, the year in which the founder of said group, Sun Ra, one of the most important musicians of experimental jazz, died, having been one of the pioneers of Afrofuturism .
The four scheduled concerts are part of a project in which the North American band joins the Brazilian musician based in Lisbon, Rodrigo Brandão.
Source: Observadora
