Sound of Joy

Sound of Joy
Sound of Joy
Studio album by Sun Ra and the Arkestra
Released	1968
Recorded	November 1, 1956
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:07 (LP) 41:16 (CD)
Label	Delmark
Producer	Tom Wilson
Sun Ra and the Arkestra chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Sound of Joy is an album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. It features the Arkestral lineup during the last few months of 1956, after trombonist Julian Priester left to join Lionel Hampton, Charles Davis became a regular member of the band, and Victor Sproles took over on bass. It was intended as the follow-up to Jazz By Sun Ra but Transition Records ceased to operate before it could be released.

Four of the tracks were included on Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth, released in 1966. The entire LP was eventually released in 1968 by Delmark Records, who also re-issued Jazz by Sun Ra. Two ballads, written by Sun Ra and sung by Clyde Williams, were left off the original album, however, because the president of Delmark Records, Bob Koester, "felt they didn't fit with the other pieces on the session."^[5] The songs were reinstated when the album was re-issued on CD in 1994.

Track listing

12" Vinyl

All tracks were written by Sun Ra, except "Two Tones", by Pat Patrick and Charles Davis.
Side A:

"El is a Sound of Joy" - (4.04)
"Overtones of China" - (3.25)
"Two Tones" - (3.41)
"Paradise" - (4.30)
"Planet Earth" - (4.24)

Side B:

"Ankh" - (6.31)
"Saturn" - (4.01)
"Reflections in Blue" - (6.21)
"El Viktor" - (2.33)

Bonus Tracks on the CD

"As You Once Were"
"Dreams Come True"

Recorded at the Balkan Studios, Chicago, November 1, 1956.

Personnel

Sun Ra - Piano, Wurlitzer electric piano
Art Hoyle - Trumpet
Dave Young - Trumpet
John Avant - Trombone
Pat Patrick - Alto sax, baritone sax
John Gilmore - Tenor sax
Charles Davis - Baritone sax
Victor Sproles - Bass
William Cochran - Drums
Jim Herndon - Tympani, timbales

External links

Complete Sun Ra's Discography

Notes

^ From Sunny Blount to Sun Ra: The Chicago Years, R Campbell
^ Allmusic review
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 186. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1356. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Space Is The Place, John F Szwed, Mojo Books, 2000, p160

[1] From Sunny Blount to Sun Ra: The Chicago Years, R Campbell

[2] Allmusic review

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 186. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1356. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[5] Space Is The Place, John F Szwed, Mojo Books, 2000, p160

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v t e Sun Ra
Discography Arkestra members John Gilmore Julian Priester Pat Patrick Charles Davis Victor Sproles Marshall Allen Ronnie Boykins James Spaulding Phil Cohran Clifford Jarvis Lex Humphries Michael Ray June Tyson Ahmed Abdullah Danny Ray Thompson
Studio albums	Jazz by Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz Sound of Joy Visits Planet Earth The Nubians of Plutonia Jazz in Silhouette Sound Sun Pleasure!! Interstellar Low Ways Fate in a Pleasant Mood Holiday for Soul Dance Angels and Demons at Play We Travel the Space Ways The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra Bad and Beautiful Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow Secrets of the Sun When Sun Comes Out Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy When Angels Speak of Love Other Planes of There The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One The Magic City The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two Strange Strings Monorails and Satellites Atlantis Space Is the Place (soundtrack) Space Is The Place Pathways to Unknown Worlds Cosmos Deep Purple Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue New Steps Other Voices, Other Blues Visions Lanquidity Sleeping Beauty Strange Celestial Road Reflections in Blue Hours After Blue Delight Somewhere Else Purple Night Mayan Temples
Live albums	Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold Nothing Is Nuits de la Fondation Maeght It's After the End of the World Black Myth/Out in Space Live in Egypt 1 Nidhamu Horizon Live In Montreux Unity Live from Soundscape I, Pharaoh Sunrise in Different Dimensions Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion Thunder of the Gods

v t e Julian Priester
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	Keep Swingin' (1960) Spiritsville (1960) Love, Love (1973) Polarization (1977) Hints on Light and Shadow (with Sam Rivers, 1996) In Deep End Dance (2002)
with Sun Ra	Super-Sonic Jazz (1956) Jazz by Sun Ra (1956) Sound of Joy (1956) Angels and Demons at Play (1956 & 1960) Jazz in Silhouette (1959) Lanquidity (1978) Blue Delight (1988) Purple Night (1989) Somewhere Else (1989)