Marshall Allen 100th birthday reading
May 2024
Marshall Allen in The Wire 440, October 2020. Photo: Marcus Maddox
To mark the 100th birthday of saxophonist Marshall Allen on 25 May, we have made three articles featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra bandleader free to read in our online library: Allen’s Invisible Jukebox from 2004, a 2015 interview by David Keenan, and Val Wilmer’s 2014 essay on Allen's formative time in Paris during the 1940s.
Invisible Jukebox: Marshall Allen, Tested by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire 250, December 2004
Days & Nights In The Interzone: Val Wilmer on how Marshall Allen came of age in Paris in the 1940s, The Wire 363, May 2014
The Ark & The Covenant: Marshall Allen interviewed by David Keenan, The Wire 380, October 2015
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