While bebop players were infusing jazz with new energy, other bandleaders were exploring alternate pathways to jazz’s weird frontier, through big bands and unusual arrangements. Raymond Scott created riotous Looney Tunes anthems, Stan Kenton radically deconstructed the big band sound, and Sun Ra took Afrofuturist mythology to the edge of madness. “Stratusphunk” revs and sputters like a clockwork machine slowly falling out of sync.