Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary
Sun Ra
Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary is a double LP (and companion CD/Blu-ray) released on May 22, 2026 via Modern Harmonic, presenting the complete musical soundtrack to the PBS American Masters documentary Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, directed by Christine Turner. The documentary — which had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival in June 2025 before its PBS broadcast on February 20, 2026 — chronicles the extraordinary life of Sun Ra (born Sonny Blount in 1914), the poet, philosopher, and jazz visionary who led the ever-evolving Sun Ra Arkestra and self-produced more than 200 albums over his lifetime. The soundtrack release includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith on the making of the film, as well as interviews with members of the Arkestra.
The album spans 37 tracks across 74 minutes, functioning less as a conventional studio record than as a curated journey through Sun Ra's vast recorded legacy assembled to serve the film's narrative arc. It opens with a rare 1977 solo piano recording of Sun Ra performing "Over the Rainbow" in Venice — one of the few pieces in the film not composed by Sun Ra himself — and moves through early works like "Angels & Demons at Play" and "Big John's Special," archival spoken-word pieces such as "Sun Ra Letter of WWII Religious Objection" and "I Am Strange," and cosmic mid-period compositions including "Interplanetary Music," "Space Is the Place," and "El Is a Sound of Joy." The sequencing mirrors the documentary's sweep through Sun Ra's jazz foundations, his development as a pioneer of Afrofuturism, and his enduring philosophical and social vision, making the soundtrack a standalone document of one of the most singular careers in American music.
Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary is a double LP (and companion CD/Blu-ray) released on May 22, 2026 via Modern Harmonic, presenting the complete musical soundtrack to the PBS American Masters documentary Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, directed by Christine Turner. The documentary — which had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival in June 2025 before its PBS broadcast on February 20, 2026 — chronicles the extraordinary life of Sun Ra (born Sonny Blount in 1914), the poet, philosopher, and jazz visionary who led the ever-evolving Sun Ra Arkestra and self-produced more than 200 albums over his lifetime. The soundtrack release includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith on the making of the film, as well as interviews with members of the Arkestra.
The album spans 37 tracks across 74 minutes, functioning less as a conventional studio record than as a curated journey through Sun Ra's vast recorded legacy assembled to serve the film's narrative arc. It opens with a rare 1977 solo piano recording of Sun Ra performing "Over the Rainbow" in Venice — one of the few pieces in the film not composed by Sun Ra himself — and moves through early works like "Angels & Demons at Play" and "Big John's Special," archival spoken-word pieces such as "Sun Ra Letter of WWII Religious Objection" and "I Am Strange," and cosmic mid-period compositions including "Interplanetary Music," "Space Is the Place," and "El Is a Sound of Joy." The sequencing mirrors the documentary's sweep through Sun Ra's jazz foundations, his development as a pioneer of Afrofuturism, and his enduring philosophical and social vision, making the soundtrack a standalone document of one of the most singular careers in American music.
Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary
Sun Ra
Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary is a double LP (and companion CD/Blu-ray) released on May 22, 2026 via Modern Harmonic, presenting the complete musical soundtrack to the PBS American Masters documentary Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, directed by Christine Turner. The documentary — which had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival in June 2025 before its PBS broadcast on February 20, 2026 — chronicles the extraordinary life of Sun Ra (born Sonny Blount in 1914), the poet, philosopher, and jazz visionary who led the ever-evolving Sun Ra Arkestra and self-produced more than 200 albums over his lifetime. The soundtrack release includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith on the making of the film, as well as interviews with members of the Arkestra.
The album spans 37 tracks across 74 minutes, functioning less as a conventional studio record than as a curated journey through Sun Ra's vast recorded legacy assembled to serve the film's narrative arc. It opens with a rare 1977 solo piano recording of Sun Ra performing "Over the Rainbow" in Venice — one of the few pieces in the film not composed by Sun Ra himself — and moves through early works like "Angels & Demons at Play" and "Big John's Special," archival spoken-word pieces such as "Sun Ra Letter of WWII Religious Objection" and "I Am Strange," and cosmic mid-period compositions including "Interplanetary Music," "Space Is the Place," and "El Is a Sound of Joy." The sequencing mirrors the documentary's sweep through Sun Ra's jazz foundations, his development as a pioneer of Afrofuturism, and his enduring philosophical and social vision, making the soundtrack a standalone document of one of the most singular careers in American music.
Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary is a double LP (and companion CD/Blu-ray) released on May 22, 2026 via Modern Harmonic, presenting the complete musical soundtrack to the PBS American Masters documentary Sun Ra: Do The Impossible, directed by Christine Turner. The documentary — which had its world premiere at the Tribeca International Film Festival in June 2025 before its PBS broadcast on February 20, 2026 — chronicles the extraordinary life of Sun Ra (born Sonny Blount in 1914), the poet, philosopher, and jazz visionary who led the ever-evolving Sun Ra Arkestra and self-produced more than 200 albums over his lifetime. The soundtrack release includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith on the making of the film, as well as interviews with members of the Arkestra.
The album spans 37 tracks across 74 minutes, functioning less as a conventional studio record than as a curated journey through Sun Ra's vast recorded legacy assembled to serve the film's narrative arc. It opens with a rare 1977 solo piano recording of Sun Ra performing "Over the Rainbow" in Venice — one of the few pieces in the film not composed by Sun Ra himself — and moves through early works like "Angels & Demons at Play" and "Big John's Special," archival spoken-word pieces such as "Sun Ra Letter of WWII Religious Objection" and "I Am Strange," and cosmic mid-period compositions including "Interplanetary Music," "Space Is the Place," and "El Is a Sound of Joy." The sequencing mirrors the documentary's sweep through Sun Ra's jazz foundations, his development as a pioneer of Afrofuturism, and his enduring philosophical and social vision, making the soundtrack a standalone document of one of the most singular careers in American music.