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
Length24:53
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

Source: [4]

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
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