Sound Sun Pleasure!!

Sound Sun Pleasure!!
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
Jazz in Silhouette (1959) Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1970) Interstellar Low Ways (1959-60)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
Rolling Stone	[2]

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:

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]

• 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

• Complete Sun Ra's Discography