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
yes. http://www.discogs.com/release/873261
― jaxon, Sunday, 3 February 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Def. one of the huge benefits of CD.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 3 February 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone should own two copies of each pharoah album!
-- vahid (vahid), Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:49 AM
i am working on this as we speak.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:41 (sixteen years ago) link
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FARRELL PHAROAH SANDERS!!!
and i was just singing "the creator has a master plan" to myself today before i found out. made me feel damn in tune, lemme tell ya. also i'm in little rock, his birthplace! gotta listen to some this eve in his honor.
oh and jaxon, interesting cover of it you put up on the blog recently.
― andrew m., Monday, 13 October 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish someone would reissue the CD version of "Izipho Zam", it's impossible to find even a used copy at a reasonable price.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
not enough love for colors here -- i like the way the singer sings "puuuuuuuuuurple"...
― tylerw, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
happy birthday! i'm so glad i got to see you play within my lifetime!
to paraphrase neal cassady, "thembi" beats "karma"
― dell, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
The Louis Armstrong duet with Leon Thomas on "The Creator Has a Master Plan" is kinda fun, though Armstrong doesn't really put much effort to it.
― Tuomas, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Gareth do you still have that live set?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 13 October 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
this record is killing me right now:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_S6slEGoLEz0/SMlQxHOcb6I/AAAAAAAAAZw/T7SiAscNQdY/s200/Trance+of+Seven+Colors.jpg
― the table is the table, Friday, 19 June 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Went and saw the man perform at Birdland a few weeks ago and he delivered the goods.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7EGQzn8e1k
Just found this awesome live performance on Youtube, what an incredibly beautiful solo! Does anyone know if this is available on record?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks tuomas. that video was amazing. the circular breathing at around 5minutes was breathtaking (heh)
― jaxon, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Phenomenal! Thanks for that Tuomas.
― matt2, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It looks like that song (though not the same version as in the video) is available this CD, which still in print. I just ordered it online, will report back once I get to hear it.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
To be honest I'd always seen Sanders as more of a "groove"/"cosmic" type of player, so I've stayed away from the later albums with smoother, extended solos. However, that video convinced that he might be equally good at that sort of setting.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
ya. there are so many of his albums i've never heard. everything from 1973-2000! i see a bunch of those around too. love will find a way, journey to the one, rejoice. i have Spirits, his 2000 record with Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph and it's ridiculously beautiful.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
It's nice that those Theresa/Evidence albums are still easily available, as this doesn't seem to be case with many other late 70s/early 80s jazz albums. A while ago I bought this great album by Idris Muhammad, which also features some pretty, smooth playing by Sanders (though there's some shrieking and wailing as well).
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
His collabs with Alice Coltrane are absolutely transcendent, esp. 'Ptah, The El Daoud' & 'Journey in Satchidananda.'
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure if you're including these in your 1973-2000 range jaxon but Elevation and Love In Us All (both from 1973) are possibly my two favorite albums by him, Elevation being my definite favorite.
― matt2, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i have elevation, but not love in us all.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
wow great clip
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
It's Sonny Sharrock's birthday this week so WKCR is playing some great Sonny and Pharoah right now.
― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, I went looking for live Pharoah on YouTube around his birthday, especially Creator, and totally couldn't find anything satisfying.
― James Blood Ulver (I eat cannibals), Monday, 24 August 2009 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
picked up a cheap copy of 'love will find a way' but haven't been able to listen to it yet because every time i do, mrs jaxon asks me to turn it off during the first song. too smooth. we'll see...
― jaxon, Monday, 24 August 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This is awesome - Louis Armstrong (w/Leon Thomas) sings "The Creator Has A Master Plan", with arrangement by Oliver Nelson:
http://destination-out.com/?p=474
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm really hoping that's not one of these: Britney's cover of Funkadelic's "Red Hot Mama"
― When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I already mentioned it upthread. It's a okay version, but not as awesome as it sounds on paper. I think it ends a bit abruptly and too soon, and Satchmo doesn't really put much effort into it. The reason this version exists is that Armstrong and Leon Thomas were both on Bob Thiele's label, Flying Dutchman, at that time. I think it was Thiele's idea to have Satchmo record it.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, didn't scan the thread, and sure hadn't heard it. Neat little curio.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
No problem, now others get to hear it too.
I think Thomas's own solo version of it on his debut album is clearly better though, as fun as it is to hear Satchmo on this version.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Thiele was an interesting cat, "discovered" Buddy Holly, married to Theresa Brewer, had song written about him by George Coleman's wife, Gloria, called "Funky Bob." Think he maybe wrote some songs himself.
― When Baron Saturday Comes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, in Thomas's version you actually get to hear the verses too - even though the verse lyrics were printed in the liner notes of Karma, they aren't sung in the Pharoah version (nor in the Satchmo version).
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
(x-post)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link