Sun Ra | Supersonic Jazz

Saturn's contribution to jazz fusion, the unpeggably eclectic bandleader/composer wowed audiences from the 1940s until his death. 
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TRACKS:
01.India
02.Sunology (Part I)
03.Advice to Medics
04.Super Blonde
05.Soft Talk
06.Sunology (Part II)
07.Kingdom of Not
08.Portrait of the Living Sky
09.Blues at Midnight
10.El is a Sound of Joy
11.Springtime in Chicago
12.Medicine for a Nightmare

.On "Springtime in Chicago", recorded at Balkan Studios, Chicago, April 13, 1956:

Sun Ra – Piano, Electric Piano
Art Hoyle – Trumpet, Percussion
Julian Priester – Trombone
James Scales – Alto Sax, Percussion
John Gilmore – Percussion
Pat Patrick – Baritone Sax, Percussion
Wilburn Green – Electric Bass
Robert Barry – Drums

.On "Super Blonde", "Soft Talk", "Medicine for a Nightmare", and "Advice to Medics", recorded at RCA studios, possibly June 16, 1956:

Sun Ra – Piano, Electric Piano, 'Space Gong'
Art Hoyle – Trumpet
Julian Priester – Trombone
John Gilmore – Tenor Sax
Pat Patrick – Baritone Sax
Wilburn Green – Electric Bass
Robert Barry – Drums
Jim Herndon – Tympani, Percussion

.On "Kingdom of Not", "Portrait of The Living Sky", "Blues at Midnight", "El Is A Sound of Joy", "India", and "Sunology" (both parts), probably recorded at Balkan Studios, Chicago, September or October 1956:

Sun Ra – Piano, Electric Piano, 'Space Gong'
Art Hoyle – Trumpet, Percussion
Pat Patrick – Alto Sax, Percussion
John Gilmore – Tenor Sax, Percussion
Charles Davis – Baritone Sax, Percussion
Victor Sproles – Bass
William Cochran – Drums
Jim Herndon – Tympani, Percussio