Biography
Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and the EWI. Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led The Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995, after Sun Ra's death in 1993 and John Gilmore's death two years later. Critic Jason Ankeny describes Marshall as "one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era."
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Lanquidity
1978
Space Is The Place
1973
Stay Awake (Various Interpretations Of Music From Vintage Disney Films)
1988
Angels And Demons At Play
1967
Un "Sung Stories"
1986
Astro Black
1973
Pictures Of Infinity
1971
In The Orbit Of Ra
2014
More Light
2013
Caribou Vibration Ensemble Featuring Marshall Allen
2010
Calling Planet Earth
1998
A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
1983
The Other Side Of The Sun
1979
My Brother The Wind
1970
The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2
1966
Other Planes Of There
1966
The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Vol. I
1965
Jazz In Silhouette
1959
The Infinite Ones
2020
Crystal Spears
2018
Singles Volume 1 (The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1961)
2016
Live At Babylon
2015
Supreme Balloon
2008
Note Bleu: Best Of Blue Note Years 1998 - 2005
2006
Credited work
1,256 releases · 189 albums · active 1954–2026
- Performance · 4,279
- Other credits · 580
- Production · 1
Studios: RLA Sound Studios · Variety Recording Studio · Choreographers Workshop · El Saturn Studio
Frequent collaborators
- Sun Ra
- Sun Ra Arkestra
- Sun Ra And His Arkestra
- Various
- Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra
- The Sun Ra Arkestra
- Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra
- Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra