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musician

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and his Astro Infinity Arkestra. Recorded March 6, 1959,From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra:The Chicago Years, Robert L. Campbell, Christopher Trent, and Robert Pruter, 2009
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label. Recorded at the same time and with the same personnel as ''

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'', the album is unusual amongst early Ra albums for predominantly featuring jazz standards. The album has been reissued on CD by the

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label with 7 tracks taken from the 1973 Saturn album ''

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'' recorded between 1953 and 1957.

Track listing

12" Vinyl

Side A: #"' Round Midnight" (Hanighen, Monk, Williams) - (3.55) #"You Never Told Me That You Care" (Hobart Dotson) - (5.37) #"Hour of Parting" (Schiffer, Spoliansky) - (4.53) Side B: #"

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" (Jolson, Rose, Dreyer) - (2.07) #"Enlightenment (taken from

)" (Dotson, Ra) - (5.09) #"

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Musicians

- piano, celeste, gong *Hobart Dotson - trumpet *

Marshall Allen Marshall Belford Allen (born May 25, 1924) is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EWI (an electronic valve instrument made by Steiner, Crumar company). Allen is best ...

- alto sax, flute *

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- alto sax, flute, percussion *

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- tenor sax, percussion *Bo Bailey - Trombone * Pat Patrick - baritone sax, flute, Percussion *Charles Davis - baritone sax, percussion *

Ronnie Boykins Ronald Boykins (December 17, 1935 – April 20, 1980) was a jazz bassist and is best known for his work with pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, although he had played with such disparate musicians as Muddy Waters, Johnny Griffin, and Jimmy Witherspoon pri ...

- bass *William Cochran - drums *Hattie Randolph - vocals

References

Complete Sun Ra's Discography
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