Sun Ra, the jazz iconoclast, who crafted a very personal and unique repertoire, is born and is the very embodiment of Jupiter-Uranus in combination. Claiming to be a spiritual guide sent from outer space to bring peace and harmony to the world, Ra's "free" jazz (as he coined the term), experimentations with Moog Synthesizers, self-produced albums and label, extravagant and colorful performances, and boundary-breaking excursions into academia (Ra taught a course at the University of California called "Black Man and the Cosmos"), all express the archetypal combination quite vividly. The mainstream of jazz dismissed him as an annoying eccentric throughout most his career, however, as is the case of many "hyper-Uranian" personalities, his music was accepted and praised toward the end of his life. Synopsizing his personal philosophy, Ra purportedly stated, "Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell...These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality."

W.C. Handy copywrites and publishes St. Louis Blues. With this composition, Handy cements his reputation as the self-proclaimed father of the Blues. St. Louis Blues would go on to replace Silver Threads Among the Gold as the most recorded American song until the Great Depression, with countless jazz and big band ensembles recording versions of the classic.