Sun Ra

• 180 GRAM VINYL LP

Secrets of the Sun is one of many Sun Ra albums which originated from sessions at the Choreographer's Workshop, a West 51st Street venue which served as the Arkestra's rehearsal space from roughly 1962 to 1965.

The band rehearsed there endlessly, and more often than not an open-reel tape deck was running. These sessions produced tracks which (without organizing logic) achieved first commercial release on Saturn LPs throughout the 1960s and '70s

PERSONNEL:

• Sun Ra - (piano, gong)
• Marshall Allen - (flute, alto sax, morrow, percussion)
• Pat Patrick - (flute, baritone sax, space drums, percussion)
• John Gilmore - (bass clarinet, tenor sax, percussion)
• Al Evans - (flugelhorn)
• Eddie Gale - (trumpet)
• Calvin Newborn - (electric guitar)
• Ronnie Boykins - (bass)
• Tommy Hunter - (drums, percussion)
• C. Scoby Stroman - (drums)
• Jimhmi Johnson - (percussion)
• Art Jenkins - (vocal)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Friendly Galaxy
• A2. Solar Differentials
• A3. Space Aura

• SIDE B
• B1. Love in Outer Space
• B2. Reflects Motion
• B3. Solar Symbols