― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been trying to find the right words to talk about the shift from the howling squalls of late-60s free jazz to the blissed-out spirituality of early-70s Pharaoh, Alice, etc. I often feel, when listening to these albums, that my own militant atheism (it actually makes me angry when people I've previously considered intelligent mention their belief in a god in my presence) keeps me from fully appreciating them (gospel, too, though sacred steel guitar blows me away).
I'm also searching for more music in that spiritual-jazz vein - who else was doing that kind of stuff during those years, and what's in print on CD?
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Maurice McIntyre - Humility In The Light of Creator!! (one of my favorite albums EVER)
Eddie Gale - "Black Rhythm Happening" & "Ghetto Music" (!!!)
Bill Cosby presents "Badfoot Brown & the Bunions Bradfor Funeral and Marching Band" (one of the most emotional albums ever. was a requiem for the just passed away Martin Luther King jR)
Alice Coltrane (Everything she ever released)Leon Thomas solo albumsAlbert AylerJohn Coltrane (of course)Don CherryJohn Klemmer (late 60s early 70s)Carlos Santana & John Mclaughlin "Love, Devotion, Surrender"Gato Barbieri (Stuff on Flying Nun and his album with Dollar Brand)Max Roach ("It's Time", "Freedom Now Suite", "Lift Every Voice")Charles LloydArt Ensemble of Chicago
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Those Eddie Gale releases are the ultimate. sooooooo amazing!!
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
and dwight trible has a solo album out a few years ago. he sings just like leon thomas
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Brown Rice
I also second Joe Henderson's Elements w/ Alice and Charlie Haden.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 28 May 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 28 May 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess I gotta try out this Iphizo Zam thing.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Session 4, 18.07.1971, Nice, France
Pharoah Sanders ts, ss, fl, tamb, percLonnie Liston Smith pCecil McBee bJimmy Hopps drLawrence Killian bongo
1.Jamil (Sanders) 22:552.Unknown title (sanders) 19:302.The Creator Has a Master Plan (Sanders-Thomas) 20:453.Let Us Go into the House of the Lord (Sanders) 25:13
Private tape
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
astral travelling, tell me of this one?
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 July 2005 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link
That Karma though...man, what an album.
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 29 July 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
i just ordered a copy from sound323
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― -- (688), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
at the moment i like summun bukmun umyun best, and ive been into sun in aquarius a lot more also
― -- (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
lets talk about these lps
― -- (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
i've only ever listened to Live at the East once or twice. kinda whatever. (actually i take that back.listening now. it's what you'd expect from a prime period PS album except you can hear people clapping in the background).
Pharoahs First, even though it's on ESP was boring. remember it being just bop.
i only got Elevation recently. weird that i didn't even know it existed because he's one of my fave artists. it's pretty good. some of the same players on the later albums (village, wisdom). not as much sax also.
fuck. just buy or download them all. except First and the Pharoah & Latin Jazz Quartet album.
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mike Hawk (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
This might be a stupid question, but how did those Pharoah Sanders albums that have tunes longer than 25 minutes work on vinyl? Did the tune fade out at the end of side A and the fade in at the beginning of side B? Did they only become available in their intended form after they were released on CD?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 3 February 2008 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Ask the Ages" remains all time for me.
GREAT album, I finally got a physical copy earlier this year. That and Coltrane's Ascension are probably my favorite albums featuring Sanders.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 24 September 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
Was wondering when that one would come up. And thinking that the last two of those guys passed away this year.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 September 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
just listened to Pharoah on India Navigation. side 2 skews towards a soul r’n’b vibe and is really really excellentCurrently jamming Wisdom Through Music and the title track is gorgeous
― sknybrg, Sunday, 25 September 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
I’m listening to Thembi. First album I heard from him and still my favorite. Opening track alone “astral travelling” hits the spot.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 September 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
Not his best I’d agree but a personal favorite.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 September 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
I don't know if it's considered a great one or not but I really love Wisdom Through Music
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 September 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
RIP
Absolutely vital to my getting into jazz in the first place, so he's always been a keystone for me
― rob, Saturday, September 24, 2022 10:51 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah this. when i was figuring out what about jazz was interesting to me he was right in the center of it. his late 60s/early 70s aesthetic and overall vibe stands unmatched.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 25 September 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDjDCiTfUnU
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
omg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 00:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ye-ah.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 01:20 (one year ago) link
Wow.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 07:14 (one year ago) link
Sounds like a mash up but it's apparently real. There's a wikipedia entry on it mentioning a couple of other tracks from teh sessions with Leon Thomas on and a few other unexpected artists like Ornette coleman. Apparently it's about Louis Armstrong's last but one session and he was too weak to play trumpet but sang ok. It's up on Spotify as the full original lp if you want to hear any more.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:20 (one year ago) link
I discovered that Louis track via this excellent NTS show from a few years ago (maybe even posted on ILM?) thats an hourlong mashup of a bunch of different covers of "Creator", lots of great versions
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Really nice appreciation of Pharoah by Kamasi Washington in the Guardian.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
Pharoah reissued and streaming
a blessing
http://www.pharoahsanders.com/harvesttime/2023/9/14/its-harvest-time
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 13:53 (six months ago) link
i love this record but have to say that $55 for a "box set" (actually just a 2XLP with booklet) is highway robbery
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:45 (six months ago) link
otm
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:56 (six months ago) link
bet $5 that a year from now there will be a single-LP version
(for $30)
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 14:57 (six months ago) link
i have a bootleg repro that i'm happy with, and it sounds like they are posting photos and essays online so
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:52 (six months ago) link
same!
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:52 (six months ago) link
The bootleg's been so expensive for ages, so I'm happy to be able to pick up a copy. The live stuff's great too.
― Tim, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 15:53 (six months ago) link
streaming on Bandcamp fwiw
cool origin story that I did not know:
This record’s origin story is as elusive as Pharoah himself. It was born out of a misunderstanding between Pharoah and the India Navigation producer Bob Cummins, and was recorded with a group of musicians so unlikely that they were never all in the same room again. There was the guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, who would go on to become a spiritual guru, the organist Clifton “Jiggs” Chase, who would leave jazz to take a job at Sugar Hill Records, where he would co-write and produce “The Message” for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Bedria Sanders, Pharoah’s wife at the time and a classically trained pianist, who would play the harmonium on this record even though she had never seen a harmonium before.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:47 (six months ago) link
i'm glad it's back in print, and i see now that it's also available on CD or digitally, which is great.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:14 (six months ago) link
I'm selling mine — mint, sealed — on Discogs for just $50 plus shipping. A bargain!
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:20 (six months ago) link
Is the cover photo not to your liking? 8)
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 18:24 (six months ago) link