| Sound Sun Pleasure!! | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009