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| Title of CD | Publisher & Cat. Number |
| Angels & Demons at Play / The Nubians of Plutonia | Evidence ECD-22066-2 [US] |
| Atlantis | Evidence ECD-22067-2 [US] |
| Batman & Robin | Universe UV016 [Italy] |
| A Black Mass | Son Boy 1 [US] |
| Concert for Comet Kahoutek | ESP Disk 3033 [Germany/US] |
| Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy / Art Forms for Dimensions Tomorrow | Evidence ECD-22036-2 [US] |
| Cosmo Sun Connection | Recommended ReR SR1 [UK] |
| Cosmos | Splax SPA 14561 [France] |
| Crystal Spears | part of The Great Lost Albums of Sun Ra (Evidence) |
| Cymbals | part of The Great Lost Albums of Sun Ra (Evidence) |
| Destination Unknown | Enja ENJ-7071-2 [Italy/US] |
| Fate in a Pleasant Mood / When Sun Comes Out | Evidence ECD-22068-2 [US] |
| Fondation Maeght Nights, vol. 1 | Jazzview 6 [Germany?] |
| Fondation Maeght Nights, vol. 2 | Jazzview 7 [Germany?] |
| Friendly Galaxy | Leo 188 [UK] |
| The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra | Savoy SV-0213 [Japan/US] |
| Great Lost Albums of Sun Ra : Cymbals & Crystal Spears | Evidence ECD-22217-2 (2 CD set) [US] |
| Greatest Hits : Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel | Evidence ECD-22219-2 [US] compiled from Evidence re-issues |
| Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, vol. 1 | ESP Disk 1014 [Germany/US] |
| Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, vol. 2 | ESP Disk 1017 [Germany/US] |
| Holiday for Soul Dance | Evidence ECD-22011-2 [US] |
| Hours After | Black Saint 120777-2 [Italy/US] |
| It Is Forbidden | Total Energy NER 3029 (also as a truncated lp) [US] |
| Jazz in Silhouette | Evidence ECD-22012-2 [US] |
| Lanquidity | Evidence ECD-22220-2 [US] |
| Life Is Splendid | Total Energy NER 3026 (also as a truncated lp) [US] |
| Live at Praxis 1984 | Golden Years GY5/6CD (2 CD set) [UK] |
| Live at Soundscape | DIW 388 (2 CD set) [Japan] |
| Live at the Hackney Empire | Leo 214/215 (2 CD set) [UK] |
| Live in London 1990 | Blast First BFFP60CD [UK] |
| Live in Tokyo | DIW 824 [Japan] |
| Love in Outer Space | Leo 154 [UK] |
| The Magic City | Evidence ECD-22069-2 [US] |
| Mayan Temples | Black Saint 120121-2 [US] |
| Monorails & Satellites | Evidence ECD-22013-2 [US] |
| My Brother the Wind, vol. II | Evidence ECD-22040-2 [US] |
| A Night in East Berlin...My Brothers | Leo 149 [revised1] [UK] |
| Nothing Is | ESP Disk 1045 [Germany/US] |
| Nuclear War | Atavistic's Unheard Music Series UMS222 [US] |
| Out There a Minute | Blast First BFFP 42[UK] |
| Other Planes of There | Evidence ECD-22037-2 [US] |
| Other Side of the Sun | Universe UV017 [Italy] |
| Outer Space Employment Agency | Total Energy NER 3021 (also as a truncated lp) [US] |
| Outer Spaceways, Inc. | Black Lion 60191 [UK/US] |
| Pathways to Unknown Worlds | Evidence ECD-22218-2, with Friendly Love [US] |
| Pleiades | Leo 210/211 (2 CD set) [UK] |
| A Quiet Place in the Universe | Leo 198 [UK] |
| Reflections in Blue | Black Saint 120101-2 [Italy/US] |
| Saint Louis Blues (=Solo Piano, vol. 2) | Improvising Artists 123858 [Italy/US] |
| Second Star to the Right (Salute to Walt Disney) | Leo 230 [UK] |
| The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale : Batman & Robin | see: Batman & Robin |
| The Singles | Evidence ECD 22164-2 (2 CD set) [US] |
| The Solar Myth Approach, vol. 1 & vol. 2 | Snapper 818 [UK] |
| Solo Piano, vol. 1 | Improvising Artists 123850 [Italy/US] |
| Somewhere Else | Rounder CD-3036 [US] |
| Sound of Joy | Delmark 411 [US] |
| Sound Sun Pleasure | Evidence ECD-22014-2 [US] |
| Soundtrack to the Film Space Is the Place | Evidence ECD-22070-2 [US] |
| Space Is the Place | Impulse! IMPD-249 [US] |
| Stardust from Tomorrow | Leo 235/236 (2 CD set) [UK] |
| Strange Celestial Road | Rounder CD-3035 [US] |
| The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab | Golden Years GY1CD [UK] |
| The Sun Ra Sextet Live at the Village Vanguard | Rounder CD-3124 [US] |
| Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth / Interstellar Low Ways | Evidence ECD-22039-2 [US] |
| Sun Song | Delmark 414 [US] |
| Sunrise in Different Dimensions | Hat Art 6099 [Switzerland] |
| Super-Sonic Jazz | Evidence ECD-22015-2 [US] |
| A Tribute to Stuff Smith [Billy Bang]2 | Soul Note 1216 [Italy/US] |
| Visions [Walt Dickerson]2 | Steeplechase SCCD-31126-2 [Denmark] |
| We Travel the Spaceways / The Bad & the Beautiful | Evidence ECD-22038-2 [US] |
| When Angels Speak of Love | Evidence ECD-22216-2 [US] |
| A Song for the Sun The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen | El Ra Records 99021 |
| Joyful Noise | Rhapsody Films 9013 |
| Mystery Mr Ra | Rhapsody Films 8047 |
| Solo Piano | IAI Films |
| Space Is the Place | [information forthcoming] |
| Sun Ra & Friends | IAI Films |
Originally A Night in East Berlin was a Saturn cassette, sold at gigs by the Arkestra. In the late 1980s Leo Records did a deal with Sun Ra, and released it as an LP, somewhat re-edited, but without additional material.
When it became time for a CD issue, Leo for chose to add as a filler part of another Sun Ra tape they had purchased earlier. Later still, Leo decided that this other tape would make a good release in its own right, and issued it complete as A Quiet Place in the Universe: it is a recording from around 1977, an unedited section of a concert performance which includes two Sun Ra compositions not available anywhere else on CD or LP.
This release of A Quiet Place meant that Leo at that point had a Sun Ra CD on the market which partially duplicated the East Berlin CD. Their response to this was to issue a different A Night in East Berlin on CD, keeping the same catalogue number as the old one(!), but replacing the music from the A Quiet Place session with another filler titled My Brothers The Wind & Sun No 9. This new filler had, for some strange reason, been sold to Leo as "recorded in Europe in 1990", but it turned out really to come from one of the Hidden Fire Saturn LPs, recorded in New York in 1988 -- the very last Saturn releases.
So there exist one Saturn and three Leo editions of A Night in East Berlin, all of which differ from each other in some way! That's not quite the end of the story, however: the concert was also broadcast, unedited, on East German TV in 1988, as two 45 minute shows. It would make a superb video release – the music really gains extra impact in that format – but sadly, I'm not aware that anyone has plans for a video issue of it.
Chris Trent
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