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Community Members Rally Support for Jazz Legend after House Collapse

Emma Lee
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WHYY
Marshall Allen, 96, has led Sun Ra's Arkestra since 1993 and still lives in the Sun Ra House in Germantown.

Marshall Allen, the 96-year-old leader of the jazz band Sun Ra Arkestra, has been living and working in a rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Germantown for more than 50 years. But recently the building partially collapsed, and neither he nor his bandmates had the money to fix it.

WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on how the jazz community came to their aid.

(Original air-date: 3/21/21)