Singer: Sun Ra And His Arkestra
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Label: El Saturn Records ‎– 11-1-79
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, White Label
Country: US
Date of released: 1979
Category: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: Free Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz, Free Funk, Big Band
Size MP3 zip: 1599 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1247 mb
Rating: 3.8✭
Format: MP3 FLAC DXD MP1 MMF MP2 MIDI DTS FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Springtime Again Written-By – Sun Ra
A2	Door Of The Cosmos Written-By – Sun Ra
B	Sleeping Beauty Written-By – Sun Ra

Credits

• Bass – Richard Williams
• Bass Clarinet, Flute – Eloe Omoe
• Bassoon, Flute, Percussion – James Jacson
• Drums – Luqman Ali
• Electric Guitar – Disco Kid
• Flute, Alto Saxophone – Marshall Allen
• Flute, Baritone Saxophone – Danny Ray Thompson
• French Horn – Vincent Chancey
• Percussion – Atakatune
• Piano, Electric Piano, Vocals – Sun Ra
• Tenor Saxophone, Percussion – John Gilmore
• Trombone – Craig Harris , Tony Bethel
• Trumpet – Walter Miller
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Michael Ray
• Vibraphone – Harry Wilson
• Vocals – June Tyson

Notes

White label pressing. Zero information on release except for "11-1-79". Credit and track title data from external source.

Like many late 70s Saturns, this was released either 1. as whitelabel, 2. as printed (actually xeroxed & hand-glued) Saturn label or 3. as hand-decorated (with colorful markers) whitelabel. Like many 70s/80s Saturns, it never had a cover. Only way to tell is the etching in the runout grooves.

This LP is a so-called PHILADELPHIA-SATURN release - hand-assembled by the band in the house of Sun Ra & The Arkestra in Philadelphia at Morton Street, as opposed to the CHICAGO-SATURNS which have the El Saturn labelprint/logo and were made by Alton Abraham - the man who created the whole concept with Sun Ra back in the early 50s and cared for the business/release side of things.

Prior to the handmade Philadelphia & printed Chicago (El) Saturns and the Thoth Intergalactics (another sub-labelname that appeared on several labelprints) which mainly were made in the 70s and 80s, original SATURN RECORDS LPs from the 50s and 60s have straight 2 color labelprints (no images or logos, just text), don't use the "El" on the labelprint and mostly have printed covers - yet they were often hand-assembled and also made in very small numbers (Sun Ra had special arrangements with the pressing plants to let him sometimes press 70 or 90 LPs only!).

Saturn releases are the most obscure ones in record history, printed in ridiculously small numbers, labels & covers often handmade and sold (at concerts) by the band.
Roughly the Saturn catalogue/discography is divided according to the recording place (where the Arkestra lived and worked) - 1. the Chicago period (50s-1961), 2. the New York period (60s) and 3. the Philadelphia period (70s and 80s).

To create even more confusion, Sun Ra sometimes took an A side of one release and the B side of another and made hybrid albums.

By now the Saturn discography is well documented but it took decades to clear up the more than 70 LPs of Sun Ra on Saturn Records released between 1956 and 1988.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
11-1-79	Sun Ra And His Arkestra*	Sleeping Beauty ‎(LP, Album, Pri)	El Saturn Records	11-1-79	US	1979
ARTYARD-333 COSMO DREAM	Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra*	Sleeping Beauty ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM)	Art Yard	ARTYARD-333 COSMO DREAM	Netherlands	2005
ART YARD CD003, ART YARD CD 003	Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra*	Sleeping Beauty ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Art Yard, Art Yard	ART YARD CD003, ART YARD CD 003	UK	2008
KSAY-3N	Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra*	Sleeping Beauty ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, 180)	Kindred Spirits, Art Yard	KSAY-3N	Netherlands	2009
PCD-93849	Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra*	Sleeping Beauty ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM)	P-Vine Records	PCD-93849	Japan	2014

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