An unofficial re-issue of an album recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios in Chicago, Sun Ra’s Super Sonic Jazz stands as a pivotal moment in his early catalogue. Later reissued as Super Sonic Sounds—a phrase already emblazoned across the original LP’s back cover—the album captures the embryonic stages of a singular musical vision. More significantly, it was the first release on El Saturn, the artist-run label founded by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham. Active from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s, El Saturn became one of the most prolific and forward-thinking independent operations of its time. Alongside artist-owned ventures such as Debut and Gate 5, the label helped establish a blueprint for creative autonomy that would echo far beyond jazz, reshaping how artists could record, release, and control their own work
- A1 India
- A2 Sunology
- A3 Advice To Medics
- A4 Super Blonde
- A5 Soft Talk
- A6 Sunology Part II
- A7 Medicine For A Nightmare (alt.take)
- B1 Kingdom Of Not
- B2 Portrait Of The Living Sky
- B3 Blues At Midnight
- B4 El Is A Sound Of Joy
- B5 Springtime In Chicago
- B6 Medicine For A Nightmare
