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Marshall Allen
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Marshall Belford Allen is a native Kentuckian born in Louisville on May 25, 1924. He is most famously known for his avant-garde jazz and free jazz work with bandleader / keyboardi…
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Marshall Belford Allen is a native Kentuckian born in Louisville on May 25, 1924. He is most famously known for his avant-garde jazz and free jazz work with bandleader / keyboardist Sun Ra, with whom he recorded from the late 1950s until Ra's passing in 1993. Allen plays the alto saxophone, oboe, piccolo, flute, and EVI. Aside from Sun Ra's Arkestra, Allen recorded with Paul Bley's band in 1964 and Olatunji's group in the mid-1960s. Allen has been the Arkestra's bandleader since the deaths of Ra and John Gilmore.
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2026
Sounds of the Desert
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2025
Beat - a film about Jazz
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1984
Mystery Mister Ra
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1980
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
Movie Himself
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1974
Space Is the Place
Movie Arkestra member
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1968
Spaceways
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1966
The Magic Sun
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