Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959,From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009 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: "'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 from Jazz in Silhouette)" (Dotson, Ra) - (5.09) "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Lerner, Loewe) - (3.11)
Musicians Source: 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