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Track Listing
1. Round Midnight
2. You Never Told Me That You Care
3. Hour of Parting
4. Back in Your Own Backyard
5. Enlightenment
6. I Could Have Danced All Night
7. Deep Purple (With Stuff Smith)
8. Piano Interlude
9. Can This Be Love
10. Dreams Come True
11. Don't Blame Me
12. 'S Wonderful
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Stuff Smith | | Distributor: | Select-O-Hits | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
2 LPs on 1 CD: SOUND SUN PLEASURE! (1970)/DEEP PURPLE (1973).
SOUND SUN PLEASURE! was originally released on Saturn (512) in 1970, and is believed to have been recorded between 1958-1960. DEEP PURPLE was originally released on El Saturn (485) in 1973, and is believed to comprise the earliest known recordings by Sun Ra in Chicago (between 1953-1955).
Producers: Ihnfinity, Inc., Alton Abraham.
Reissue producer: Jerry Gordon.
Includes liner notes by John Dilberto.
SOUND SUN PLEASURE:
Personnel: Sun Ra (keyboards); Hatty Randolph (vocals); Danny Davis, Marshall Allen (alto saxophones); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone); Charles Davis, Pat Patrick (baritone saxophones); James Spaulding, Danny Thompson (reeds); Hobart Dotson, Ahk Tal Ebah (trumpets); Bob Northern (flugelhorn); Nimrod Hunt, James Jackson; Clifford Jarvis (drums).
DEEP PURPLE:
Personnel: Sun Ra (piano); Clyde Williams, Hatty Randolph (vocals); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone); Art Hoyle (trumpet); Stuff Smith (violin); Vic Sproles, Ronnie Boykins (bass); Robert Barry (drums).
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...Several cuts underpin the collection's historical import, including Ra's earliest unaccompanied solo, Piano Interlude, a brief, intriguing exercise in arpeggiating a chord...
Down Beat (05/01/1992)
3.5 Stars - Very Good - ...consists primarily of standards, with Ra backing Chicago vocalist Hatty Randolph on several tracks...
Rolling Stone (03/04/1993)
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