Silhouette (2009) is the result of a year of composing and arranging. Original compositions, ranging from “noir jazz" to flamenco, comprise almost half the album, while the other half features tunes ...

Recorded in 1958, Jazz in Silhouette stands as an overlooked masterpiece, a work that shows Ra not as a mere curiosity or backwater galaxy, but as a major creative force in the jazz universe, a center ...