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    Sun Ra Sound Sun Pleasure (1970)

    El Saturn Records
      • 1. Round Midnight
      • 2. You Never Told Me That Game
      • 3. Hour Of Parting
      • 4. Back In Your Own Back Yard
      • 5. Enlightenment
      • 6. Could Have Danced All Night

      Recorded 59 in Chicago, released on El Saturn in 1970.

      Sun Ra - piano, celeste, gong Hobart Dotson - trumpet Marshall Allen - alto sax, flute James Spaulding - alto sax, flute, percussion John Gilmore - tenor sax, percussion Bo Bailey - Trombone Pat Patrick - baritone sax, flute, Percussion Charles Davis - baritone sax, percussion Ronnie Boykins - bass William Cochran - drums Hattie Randolph - vocals

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