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Super-Sonic Jazz is the second studio album by Sun Ra, recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios, Chicago. Super-Sonic Jazz was the first album to be released on Saturn Records, the label run by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham, and was one of only three albums by Sun Ra to have been available in the 1950s.

Track listing:
All songs written by Sun Ra except “Soft Talk”, written by Julian Priester

Side A:

“India” (4:52)
“Sunology” (5:43)
“Advice to Medics” (2:05)
“Super Blonde” (2:39)
“Soft Talk” (2:45)
“Sunology, part II” (7:08)

Side B:

“Kingdom of Not” (5:35)
“Portrait of the Living Sky” (1:52)
“Blues at Midnight” (6:34)
“El is a Sound of Joy” (4:00)
“Springtime in Chicago” (3:54)
“Medicine for a Nightmare” (2:25)

Personnel:

The Arkestra in an unidentified club, late 1955 or 1956; l-r, Sun Ra, Richard Evans, Robert Barry, John Gilmore & Pat Patrick

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, Percussion
Mixed at RCA studios, Chicago, February 14, 1957, and released in March with an initial pressing of 500.

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Released: March 1957
Recorded: 1956, Chicago
Length: 49:31
Label: Saturn, Impulse! Records, Evidence
Producer Alton Abraham