Sound Sun Pleasure!!

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Sound Sun Pleasure!!
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Studio album by
Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra
Released1970
RecordedMarch 6, 1959, Chicago
Genre Cool jazz, big band
Length24.52
Label Saturn
Evidence
Producer Alton Abraham
Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra chronology
Jazz in Silhouette
(1959)
Sound Sun Pleasure!!
(1970)
Interstellar Low Ways
(1959-60)
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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.

Contents

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:

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) - (3.55)
  2. "You Never Told Me That You Care" (Hobart Dotson) - (5.37)
  3. "Hour of Parting" (Schiffer, Spoliansky) - (4.53)

Side B:

  1. "Back in Your Own Backyard" (Jolson, Rose, Dreyer) - (2.07)
  2. "Enlightenment (taken from Jazz in Silhouette)" (Dotson, Ra) - (5.09)
  3. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner, Loewe) - (3.11)

Musicians [4]

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1355. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 635.
  4. 1 2 From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009