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Tauhid

GuerssenAdmin — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Recorded November 15, 1966 at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs – New Jersey, Tauhid is one of the most iconic album recorded by the tenor saxophonist. On his debut for Impulse ! the leader assembled an extraordinary line-up, defining the boundaries of the so-called spiritual jazz movement. Henry Grimes (bass) Roger Blank (drums), Sonny Sharrock (guitar), Nat Bettis (percussion) and Dave Burrell (piano).

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1971/07/18 Oyster Club Nice, France FM

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

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Jewels Of Thought (Limited Edition)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000

Jewels of Thought is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at Plaza Sound Studios in New York City on October 20, 1969, and was released on Impulse! Records in the same year.

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Wisdom Through Music (Limited Edition)

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

180 gram Vinyl Edition. Gatefold Cover. Recorded in New York City and Los Angeles, California, and was released in 1973 by Impulse! Records. Wisdom Through Music, with its smaller line-up – Sanders is joined by flutist James Branch, pianist Joe Bonner, bassist Cecil McBee, drummer Norman Connors, and percussionists Badal Roy, James Mtume, and Lawrence Killian. – consists of five tracks. Most notable is “High Life,” on which Sanders emulates the West African style of music with roiling, celebratory drumming and singing, and killer flute playing. “Love Is Everywhere” is a shorter version of what is now a Sanders performance standard; it appeared in full on Love in Us All released in 1974. Its rawness and soulfulness simply burst from the musical frame with celebration before Bonner and the ensemble take over and rip it up.
The title track is a slow, meditative, drone-like piece with abundant percussion by Roy and gorgeous arco work from McBee. Bonner’s “The Golden Lamp” is driven by McBee, Branch, and an uncredited instrument reminiscent of kora and/or an oud. It closes with the nearly 11-minute “Selflessness,” a jam that begins as a sung chant and sprawls out into another Sanders orgy of celebration with excellent tenor blowing, as well as spirited interplay with Bonner and the percussionists. These two recordings belong together, and create a compelling whole, revealing a compelling chapter in Sanders recorded history. (AllMusicGuide)

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Love In Us All

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Biggest Tip! Limited Edition LP. Deluxe 180-Gram Reissue. Special Gatefold Edition Including Original Artwork. Few will need introduction to the work of Pharoah Sanders. He is a titan with few equivalents in histories of free and spiritual jazz. The creator of some of the most important and singular records in these fields, Sanders, who was once described by Ornette Coleman as “probably the best tenor player in the world”, is equally noted for his work with artists like John Coltrane, as a member of his groundbreaking final quintet, Alice Coltrane, Leon Thomas, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra, often rendering a remarkable influence over the results.
Pharoah Sanders was among the most important creative voices of the 20th Century. From his emergence on the New York scene during the early 1960s until his passing, he remained one of the driving forces in jazz. Known for his great breaking style of playing that helped lay the groundwork for spiritual jazz, as well as a particular movement of free jazz – infusing lyrism and melody with overblown, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques – during the same period that he was working with John Coltrane, and then Alice Coltrane, Sanders embarked upon his own career as a band leader, producing a suite of albums across the 1960s and ’70s for ESP, Impulse!, Strata-East, and others that remain some of the most celebrated, enduring, and sought-after in the canon of jazz. They are a marvel beyond words and stand entirely on their own. From their first sounding, there is no mistaking them for anything but Pharoah’s music.
“Love in Us All” was recorded in 1972 but released on the Impulse! label no earlier than 1974. It consists of two extended compositions, “Love Is Everywhere” (which Sanders also recorded that year in a different version for his album “Wisdom Through Music”) and an homage to John Coltrane, titled “To John”. Both serve as an aural representation of the way Sanders’ music polarized the jazz world at the time. Ted Davis of Paste Magazine included “Love Is Everywhere” in his list of “The 10 Best Pharoah Sanders Songs”, stating that it “captures his sound at its most wonderfully cosmic, esoteric and enlightening—a perfect distillation of all the things that made him such a singular and unforgettable artist.” According to AllMusicGuide writer Nathan Bush, “Coltrane himself never created a work as emotionally direct as “Love Is Everywhere”.

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Summum Bukmun Umyun. Deaf Dumb Blind

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000

A graduate of the mid-1960s ensembles of John Coltrane, saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has been described as “probably the best tenor player in the world” by Ornette Coleman and was a major figure in the development of free jazz.

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