Reddit reviews Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra
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Straight Life by Art Pepper is the best I've read.
Space Is The Place and Bright Moments and Beneath The Underdog also interesting.
On the other hand, Ben Watson is an idiot.
It does help. I wasn't the biggest fan of Sun Ra until I read [John Szwed's biography] (http://www.amazon.com/Space-Is-The-Place-Lives/dp/0306808552). That allowed me to get to know more about him and some of his music that I may never have gotten to. I'm still not an avid fan, but I've got a handful of his records that I dig.
Biographies and autobiographies are the way to go, I think – there's simply too much to write a book about everyone at once, not to mention the story of jazz is really the sum of intersecting individual journeys and solos, not some kind of burgeoning volksgeist. I recommend Miles and Space is the Place