Sound Sun Pleasure!! is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959, 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.

Sound Sun Pleasure!!

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)

Sound Sun Pleasure!!

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)

Sound Sun Pleasure!!

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

References

Complete Sun Ra's Discography

Sun Ra albums

1959 albums

El Saturn Records albums

Evidence Music albums