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"Super-Sonic Jazz comes from the mid-1950s. It is a set of originals combining conventional harmony and orchestrations with a thoroughly individual 'voice' (conveyed in occasional devices like Wilburn Green's use of electric bass on 'Super Blonde' and the closing 'Medicine for a Nightmare') and a striking gentleness that contrasts sharply with the often brutal aspect of contemporaneous hard bop. So good is Julian Priester 's own brief 'Soft Talk' (the only non-Sun Ra composition) that one immediately wishes for more." - Richard Cook & Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide To Jazz
Tracklist
1 India
2 Sunology
3 Advice to Medics
4 Super Blonde
5 Soft Talk
6 Sunology Part II
7 Medicine for a Nightmare (Alt. Take)
8 Kingdom of Not
9 Portrait of the Living Sky
10 Blues at Midnight
11 El Is a Sound of Joy
12 Springtime in Chicago
13 Medicine for a Nightmare