The album The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One was recorded at Studio RLA in New York City on April 20, 1965. The back cover describes it as an “album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra.” The Allmusic.com review of the record states that “the album is an example of the radical break which Sun Ra's music of that time had made with previous notions of melody or harmony.“

Woodwind player and percussionist Marshall Allen described the method Sun Ra used for creating the music in the studio:

“Sun Ra would go to the studio and he would play something, the bass would come in, and if he didn't like it he'd stop it; and he'd give the drummer a particular rhythm, tell the bass he wanted not a 'boom boom boom,' but something else, and then he'd begin to try out the horns, we're all standing there wondering what's next...

“I just picked up the piccolo and worked with what was going on, what mood they set, or what feeling they had. A lot of things we'd be rehearsing and we did the wrong things and Sun Ra stopped the arrangement and changed it. Or he would change the person who was playing the particular solo, so that changes the arrangement. So the one that was soloing would get another part given to him personally. 'Cos he knew people. He could understand what you could do better so he would fit that with what he would tell you.”

Here is a link to a track from the album:

"DANCING IN THE SUN"