Michael Ray performs with Kool & the Gang at Loessfest in Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 29, 2016.
Michael Ray (born December 24, 1952) is an American jazz trumpeter. He tours extensively with Sun Ra and the successor Sun Ra Arkestra under Marshall Allen's direction following Sun Ra's passing. For a period from the mid-1990s to the present he leads his own band, Michael Ray and the Cosmic Krewe. His playing with Sun Ra and independently has incorporated funkjazz, R & B, electronica and fusion genres.