SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA - Super Sonic Jazz (Waxtime Reissue w/ bonus track) SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA

LP - Limited Edition 180g Black Vinyl featuring the complete album + bonus track (2026 Waxtime Reissue). 

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-fifties to the early-sixties. It was recorded in 1956 at the RCA Studios in Chicago and was actually the first 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 first 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