For the song by Harold Arden and Ted Koehler, see When the Sun Comes Out

When the Sun Comes Out

"When the Sun Comes Out" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler, in 1941. It was introduced in 1941 by Helen O'Connell with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.-Barbra Streisand Recording:...

When Sun Comes Out is an album by the American Jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician Sun Ra

Sun Ra

Sun Ra was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama...

 and his Myth Science Arkestra. The album was originally released on Ra's own record label, Saturn

El Saturn Records

El Saturn Records is the name of an American record label. The label was one of the most active artist-owned record labels created in 1957 by Alton Abraham. Notable albums produced by the label include works by Sun Ra....

, in 1963, and was the fifth album by the Arkestra to be put out, after Jazz by Sun Ra

Jazz by Sun Ra

Jazz By Sun Ra is the debut album to be released by Sun Ra. The record label for the first pressing says "07-12-56", presumably when it was recorded. The LP originally appeared on Tom Wilson's short-lived Transition Records...

(1957), Super-Sonic Jazz

Super-Sonic Jazz

Super-Sonic Jazz is an album by Sun Ra, recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios, Chicago. Super-Sonic Jazz was the first album to be released on Saturn records, the label run by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham, and was one of only three albums by Sun Ra to have been available in the 1950s...

(also 1957), Jazz in Silhouette

Jazz in Silhouette

Jazz in Silhouette is a jazz album by Sun Ra and His Arkestra. Recorded on March 6, 1959 and released May of the same year. The album was recorded in Chicago during a session that also included the whole of Sound Sun Pleasure!! and Interstellar Low Ways from the album of the same name...

(1959) and The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recorded October 10, 1961 for the Savoy label. The first record to be recorded by a pared-down Arkestra after leaving Chicago, the album is often considered one of the most accessible records in Ra's...

(1961). The album was the first Saturn release to be taken from recordings made at the Choreographer's Workshop, New York. Other albums recorded there include Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Often considered the first of Ra's 'outside' recordings , the album was the first to make extensive use of a discovery by the Arkestra's drummer and engineer, Tommy Hunter;Art Forms of...

, Bad and Beautiful

Bad and Beautiful (album)

Bad and Beautiful is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Recorded in 1961 in New York at the Choreographers' Workshop, 414 W. 51st St., the album was the second to be recorded in New York by the Arkestra after leaving Chicago, but would remain unreleased until 1972...

, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra. Recorded in 1963 but not released until 1967 on Sun Ra's own Saturn label, the record has become one of the most discussed of Ra's New York recordings...

and Other Planes of There

Other Planes of There

Other Planes of There is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Recorded in 1964, the album had been released by 1966 on Sun Ra's own Saturn label...

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'The New York period saw Ra focusing far more on percussion backdrops as opposed to horn arrangements (virtually everyone on the album gets a percussion credit), and everything from the percussion to the horn solos to Ra's piano playing took a more aggressive stance. John Gilmore's tenor solo on "Calling Planet Earth" throws the bop rule book out the window, and he is heard developing a more extended vocabulary of skronks and squeals. This track exemplifies the change in sound and focus from the Chicago days.... When Sun Comes Out is a first glimpse into an era that would culminate in some of the Arkestra's most renowned recordings.' Sean Westergaard

When reissued on Compact disc

Compact Disc

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 by Evidence in 1993, When Sun Comes Out was appended to the slightly earlier Fate In A Pleasant Mood

Fate in a Pleasant Mood

Fate in a Pleasant Mood is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra recorded in Chicago, mid 1960 and originally released on his own Saturn label in 1965. The album was reissued by Impulse! in 1974, and by Evidence in 1993...

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12" Vinyl

All songs by Sun Ra

Side A:

1. Circe - (2.34)
2. The Nile - (4.51)
3. Brazilian Sun - (3.50)
4. We Travel The Spaceways - (3.21)

Side B:

1. Calling Planet Earth - (5.30)
2. Dancing Shadows - (5.56)
3. The Rainmaker - (4.33)
4. When Sun Comes Out - (4.54)

Musicians

• Sun Ra - Piano, Electric Celeste, Percussion
• Walter Miller - Trumpet
• John Gilmore
  John Gilmore (musician)
  John Gilmore was an American jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra...
  
   - Tenor Sax, Drums, Percussion, Percussion
• Teddy Nance - Trombone
• Bernard Pettaway - Trombone
• Marshall Allen
  Marshall Allen
  Marshall Belford Allen is an American free jazz and avant-garde jazz alto saxophone player. He also performs on flute, oboe, piccolo, and EVI ....
  
   - Flute, Alto Saxophone, Percussion
• Pat Patrick - Baritone Saxophone, Bongos, Drums on We Travel The Spaceways
• Danny Davis - Alto Sax
• Ronnie Boykins
  Ronnie Boykins
  Ronnie Boykins was a jazz bassist and is best known for his work with pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, although he had played with such disparate musicians as Muddy Waters, Johnny Griffin, and Jimmy Witherspoon prior to joining Sun Ra's Arkestra.-Biography:He joined the Arkestra during the Chicago...
  
   - Bass
• Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis
  Clifford Jarvis was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer.After studying at Berklee in the 1950s he established himself in jazz between 1959 and 1966 by recording with Chet Baker, Randy Weston, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Jackie McLean, and Elmo Hope, and playing with Grant...
  
  - Drums
• Lex Humphries - Drums on Calling Planet Earth
• Tommy Hunter - Gong, Drums, Tape Effects
• Theda Barbara - Vocals
• Ensemble vocals

Recorded entirely at the Choreographer's Workshop, New York (the Arkestra's rehearsal space) in late 1962 or 1963..