Sleeping Beauty (Sun Ra album)

Sleeping Beauty is an album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra recorded in 1979 and originally released on Ra's Saturn label and rereleased on CD on Art Yard in 2008.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is the great late-night Sun Ra chillout album you never knew about. The band had been working in a more groove-oriented setting off and on for over a year, as evidenced by the albums Lanquidity and On Jupiter, with both featuring prominent electric bass and electric guitar".

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

"Springtime Again" – 9:12

"Door of the Cosmos" – 8:53

"Sleeping Beauty" – 11:48

Personnel

Sun Ra – piano, electric piano, organ

Michael Ray – trumpet, flugelhorn

Walter Miller – trumpet

Tony Bethel, Craig Harris – trombone

Vincent Chancey – French horn

Marshall Allen – alto saxophone, flute

John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion

Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, flute

Eloe Omoe – bass clarinet, flute

James Jacson – bassoon, flute, percussion

Disco Kid – electric guitar

Richard Williams – electric bass

Harry Wilson – vibraphone

Atakatune – percussion

Luqman Ali – drums

June Tyson and the band – vocals

References

Sun Ra albums

El Saturn Records albums

1979 albums