Sound Sun Pleasure!!
1970 studio album by Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra
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Studio album by Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | March 6, 1959, Chicago | |||
Genre | Cool jazz, big band | |||
Length | 24.52 | |||
Label | Saturn Evidence | |||
Producer | Alton Abraham | |||
Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra chronology | ||||
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Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959,[4] it remained unreleased until 1970 when it was issued on the Saturn label. Recorded at the same time and with the same personnel as Jazz in Silhouette, the album is unusual amongst early Ra albums for predominantly featuring jazz standards.
The album has been reissued on CD by the Evidence label with 7 tracks taken from the 1973 Saturn album Deep Purple recorded between 1953 and 1957.
Track listing
12" Vinyl
Side A:
- "'Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) - (3.55)
- "You Never Told Me That You Care" (Hobart Dotson) - (5.37)
- "Hour of Parting" (Schiffer, Spoliansky) - (4.53)
Side B:
- "Back in Your Own Backyard" (Jolson, Rose, Dreyer) - (2.07)
- "Enlightenment (taken from Jazz in Silhouette)" (Dotson, Ra) - (5.09)
- "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner, Loewe) - (3.11)
Musicians [4]
- Sun Ra - piano, celeste, gong
- Hobart Dotson - trumpet
- Marshall Allen - alto sax, flute
- James Spaulding - alto sax, flute, percussion
- John Gilmore - tenor sax, percussion
- Bo Bailey - Trombone
- Pat Patrick - baritone sax, flute, Percussion
- Charles Davis - baritone sax, percussion
- Ronnie Boykins - bass
- William Cochran - drums
- Hattie Randolph - vocals
References
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 635.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1355. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ a b From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009
- Complete Sun Ra's Discography
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Arkestra members
- John Gilmore
- Julian Priester
- Pat Patrick
- Charles Davis
- Victor Sproles
- Marshall Allen
- Ronnie Boykins
- James Spaulding
- Phil Cohran
- Clifford Jarvis
- Lex Humphries
- Michael Ray
- June Tyson
- Ahmed Abdullah
- Danny Ray Thompson
- Jazz by Sun Ra
- Super-Sonic Jazz
- Sound of Joy
- Visits Planet Earth
- The Nubians of Plutonia
- Jazz in Silhouette
- Sound Sun Pleasure!!
- Interstellar Low Ways
- Fate in a Pleasant Mood
- Holiday for Soul Dance
- Angels and Demons at Play
- We Travel the Space Ways
- The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
- Bad and Beautiful
- Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
- Secrets of the Sun
- When Sun Comes Out
- Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
- When Angels Speak of Love
- Other Planes of There
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
- The Magic City
- The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
- Strange Strings
- Monorails and Satellites
- Atlantis
- Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
- Space Is The Place
- Pathways to Unknown Worlds
- Cosmos
- Deep Purple
- Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
- New Steps
- Other Voices, Other Blues
- Visions
- Lanquidity
- Sleeping Beauty
- Strange Celestial Road
- Reflections in Blue
- Hours After
- Blue Delight
- Somewhere Else
- Purple Night
- Mayan Temples
- Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- Nothing Is
- Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- It's After the End of the World
- Black Myth/Out in Space
- Live in Egypt 1
- Nidhamu
- Horizon
- Live In Montreux
- Unity
- Live from Soundscape
- I, Pharaoh
- Sunrise in Different Dimensions
- Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
- Thunder of the Gods