Cat No:
772379
Release Date: 06 March 2026
Label: Waxtime
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8435723702061
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
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Description
The complete classic album + bonus track - 180g vinyl pressing. Super Sonic Jazz (later reissued as Super Sonic Sounds) was one of the many albums recorded by Sun Ra for the Saturn label from the mid-fifties to the early-sixties. It was recoded in 1956 at the RCA Studios in Chicago and was actually the first album to be released on El Saturn Records, a label owned and run by Alton Abraham and Sun Ra. The label El Saturn is considered, along with the Charles Mingus/Max Roach Debut label and Harry Partch's Gate 5 label, one of the very first and most active artist-owned record labels.
"Super Sonic Jazz comes from the mid-1950s. It is a set of originals combining conventional harmony and orchestrations with a thoroughly individual 'voice' (conveyed in occasional devices like Wilburn Green's use of electric bass on 'Super Blonde' and the closing 'Medicine for a Nightmare') and a striking gentleness that contrasts sharply with the often brutal aspect of contemporaneous hard bop. So good is Julian Priester 's own brief 'Soft Talk' (the only non-Sun Ra composition) that one immediately wishes for more." - **** 1/2 Richard Cook & Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz
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Tracklisting
- 1. India
- 2. Sunology
- 3. Advice To Medics
- 4. Super Blonde
- 5. Soft Talk
- 6. Sunology Part II
- 7. Medicine For A Nightmare [alt. Take]
- 1. Kingdom Of Not
- 2. Portrait Of The Living Sky
- 3. Blues At Midnight
- 4. El Is A Sound Of Joy
- 5. Springtime In Chicago
- 6. Medicine For A Nightmare
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Side 1
Side 2
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Evidence
Steve Lacy
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Know What I Mean?
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