Sound Sun Pleasure!!

Sound Sun Pleasure!!
Sound Sun Pleasure!!
Studio albumby Sun Raand 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 Raand his Astro Infinity Arkestra chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]
Rolling Stone	^[2]

Sound Sun Pleasure!!is an album by the AmericanJazzmusicianSun Raand his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959,^[4]it remained unreleased until 1970 when it was issued on theSaturnlabel. Recorded at the same time and with the same personnel asJazz in Silhouette,the album is unusual amongst early Ra albums for predominantly featuring jazz standards.

The album has been reissued on CD by theEvidencelabel with 7 tracks taken from the 1973 Saturn albumDeep Purplerecorded 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 fromJazz 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 ^bFrom Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009

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[1] AllMusic review

[2] Swenson, John, ed. (1999).The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide.Random House. p. 635.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard;Morton, Brian(2008).The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings(9th ed.).Penguin.p. 1355.ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Campbell-4] From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009

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Discography 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
Studio albums	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
Live albums	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

Track listing

12 "Vinyl

Musicians[4]

References

Musicians^[4]