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Sun Ra & The Arkestra – Sound Of Joy
Delmark 414

Sun Ra’s second album was a Delmark release, although it was originally intended for the Transition label, which did not survive long enough to release it. Recorded in November 1957

Personnel:
Sun Ra, piano, electric piano
Art Hoyle & Dave Young, trumpets
John Gilmore, tenor sax
Pat Patrick, alto & baritone sax
Jim Herndon, tympani, timbali
John Avant, trombone
Charles Davis, baritone sax
Victor Sproles, bass
William Cochran, drums
Clyde Williams, vocals (10, 11)

1 El Is A Sound Of Joy 3:59
2 Overtones Of China 3:20
3 Two Tones 3:37
4 Paradise 4:26
5 Planet Earth 4:20
6 Ankh 6:27
7 Saturn 3:56
8 Reflections In Blue 6:17
9 El Viktor 2:29
10 As You Once Were 4:16
11 Dreams Come True 3:49

Tracks 10 & 11: previously unissued

All tracks were written by Sun Ra, except "Two Tones", by Pat Patrick and Charles Davis.

Originally recorded in 1957 for the Transition label, it didn't come out until 1968 on Delmark.

Wikipedia:

Sound of Joy is an album by Sun Ra and his Arkestra. It features the Arkestral lineup during the last few months of 1956, after trombonist Julian Priester left to join Lionel Hampton, Charles Davis became a regular member of the band, and Victor Sproles took over on bass. It was intended as the follow-up to Jazz By Sun Ra but Transition Records ceased to operate before it could be released.

Four of the tracks were included on Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra Visits Planet Earth, released in 1966. The entire LP was eventually released in 1968 by Delmark Records, who also re-issued Jazz by Sun Ra. Two ballads, written by Sun Ra and sung by Clyde Williams, were left off the original album, however, because the president of Delmark Records, Bob Koester, "felt they didn't fit with the other pieces on the session." The songs were reinstated when the album was re-issued on CD in 1994.