Sun Ra & His Arkestra Supersonic Jazz (Expanded Edition)

• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – India
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Sunology (Part. 1)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Advice To Medics
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Super Blonde
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Soft Talk
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Sunology (Part. 2)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Kingdom Of Not
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Portrait Of The Living Sky
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Blues At Midnight
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – El Is A Sound Of Joy
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Springtime In Chicago
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Medicine For A Nightmare
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Somebody Else's Idea (Take 1)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – New Horizons (Take 1)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – El Viktor (Take 1)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Adventure In Space
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Delilah
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Soft Talk (Take 1)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Medicine For A Nightmare (Alternate)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Saturn (Take 2)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Delight (Take 2)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Sace Aura (Take 2)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – State Street (Alternate)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Stratosphere
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Velvet (Alternate)
• Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Somebody Else's Idea

• 1. India
• 2. Sunology (Part. 1)
• 3. Advice To Medics
• 4. Super Blonde
• 5. Soft Talk
• 6. Sunology (Part. 2)
• 7. Kingdom Of Not
• 8. Portrait Of The Living Sky
• 9. Blues At Midnight
• 10. El Is A Sound Of Joy
• 11. Springtime In Chicago
• 12. Medicine For A Nightmare
• 13. Somebody Else's Idea (Take 1)
• 14. New Horizons (Take 1)
• 15. El Viktor (Take 1)
• 16. Adventure In Space
• 17. Delilah
• 18. Soft Talk (Take 1)
• 19. Medicine For A Nightmare (Alternate)
• 20. Saturn (Take 2)
• 21. Delight (Take 2)
• 22. Sace Aura (Take 2)
• 23. State Street (Alternate)
• 24. Stratosphere
• 25. Velvet (Alternate)
• 26. Somebody Else's Idea

Chicago in the mid-50s was the launchpad for Sun Ra's first steps beyond the straight-ahead jazz idiom. Working with his early Arkestra, he assembled a set of originals that already pointed away from bebop and hard bop toward something otherworldly. Pieces like 'India' and 'Sunology, Pt. 1' pulse with modal rhythms and percussion textures drawn from both African and Egyptian traditions, while 'Super Blonde' and 'Soft Talk' retain a swinging, r&b-inflected edge. 'Blues at Midnight' offers the earliest recording of a piece that would stay in Ra's book for decades, stretching out with moody intensity. The mixture of mystical themes, unusual instrumentation, and driving Chicago jazz energy captures Ra and his group on the brink of a new cosmic language.