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Released
  
1970

Length
  
24.52

Release date
  
1970

Label
  
El Saturn Records

Recorded
  
March 6, 1959, Chicago

Artist
  
Sun Ra

Producer
  
Alton Abraham

Genre
  
Jazz

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Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1959)
  
Interstellar Low Ways (1959-60)

Similar
  
Sun Ra albums, Jazz albums

Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959, it wasn't released until 1970 on Sun Ra's 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 Evidence with 7 tracks taken from the 1973 Saturn album Deep Purple recorded between 1953 and 1957.

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

  • 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

    • Songs

    1'Round Midnight3:55
    2You Never Told Me That You Care5:37
    3Hour of Parting4:53

    References

    Sound Sun Pleasure!! Wikipedia
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