Marshall Allen cancels participation in Sun Ra Arkestra performances in Portugal | Song
Jazz musician Marshall Allen, 98, will participate in Sun Ra Arkestra’s scheduled concerts in Leiria, Coimbra, Lisbon and Braga, for health reasons, a promoter Unha announced this Saturday.
“Oh Marshall Allen [que lidera a Sun Ra Arkestra] is hospitalized and, therefore, unable to travel to Portugal”, said a 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 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 be on stage as the third member of Sun Ra Arkestra, a group founded by Sun Ra in the 1950s.
A Chicago horn player, Vincent Chancey has been a member of Sun Ra Arkestra since 1976, having collaborated with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock or Carla Bley. Marshall Allen to Sun Ra Arkestra, a group active for more than 60 years, since 1993, who died in the founder of that group, Sun Ra, one of the most important musicians of experimental jazz, having one of the pioneers of Afrofuturism.
The four concerts planned are part of a project that the North American band joins the Brazilian musician based in Lisbon, Rodrigo Brandão.