SUN RA King Pleasure Stadium New Years Eve Dec 31 New Years

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SUN RA. King Pleasure Stadium. New Year's Eve, Dec 31 New Years Day Jan 1. Color lithographed poster by Gary Grimshaw printed in purple, yellow and red on a white ground. Signed by the artist, lower right. 133/4x81/4 inches. Ann Arbor, MI [1973]

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Sun Ra, born Herbert Sonny Blount (1914-1993) pioneered collective improvisation, a technique sometimes heard in the music of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry. Sun Ra formed his famous Arkestra in 1953 fusing Afro-Cuban rhythms with bop and traditional big band jazz. The present poster was ceated by Grimshaw while working as art director for the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival (1972-1973). Wearing his hair at shoulder-length and definitely a "hippy," the Detroit Free Press said of Grimshaw "If he hadn't been the poster artist for counter-culture, he could have been its poster child."