| Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra |
| Cover: | VisitsPlanetEarth.jpg |
| Released: | 1966 |
| Recorded: | 1956–58, Chicago[1] |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Saturn Evidence |
| Producer: | Alton Abraham |
| Prev Title: | Sound of Joy |
| Prev Year: | 1956 |
| Next Title: | The Nubians of Plutonia |
| Next Year: | 1958 |
Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth is a jazz album by the American musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Recorded between late 1956 and 1958, the album was originally released on Ra's own Saturn label in 1966, and was reissued on CD by Evidence in 1992. In keeping with many Saturn releases, one side features cuts from the arkestra c.1958, whilst the other side comes from the 1956 sessions originally intended for Sound of Joy but still unreleased in 1966.
All songs by Sun Ra unless otherwise noted;
Side A:
Side B:
The sides were switched for the Evidence reissue, as well as being coupled with the album Interstellar Low Ways.
On Reflections In Blue, Two Tones, El Viktor and Saturn, recorded at the Balkan Studio, Chicago, November 1, 1956;[2]
On Planet Earth, Eve and Overtones of China recorded at Rehearsals, late 1957 or 1958;[2]