Sun Ra - Super Sonic Jazz

Cat. no: 772379
Format: LP
Barcode: 8435723702061
Release Date: 06 Mar 2026
Genre: Jazz

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-ffties to the early-sixties. It was recoded in 1956 at the RCA Studios in Chicago and was actually the frst 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 frst 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

Tracks: India / Sunology / Advice To Medics / Super Blonde / Soft Talk / Sunology Part II / Medicine For A Nightmare [alt. Take] / Kingdom Of Not / Portrait Of The Living Sky / Blues At Midnight / El Is A Sound Of Joy / Springtime In Chicago / Medicine For A Nightmare