Friday 27 April 2007

The creator has a masterplan

When you know that he was John Coltrane's latter day playing partner, you understand how a musician like Pharoah Sanders reaches such an intensive trance music at least at the very beginning of his career as soloist.
After 2 albums as tenor sax soloist, Sanders was signed by Impulse in the early 70's. This label which is in my opinion the geatest one in jazz ever (I'll make a post about it later on) really gave him a chance to express and show to the world that his music isn't stuck but perpetually in a kind of mystic research. He released 5 albums with this label before falling in an unexpected role of "disco hero"in the 80's.
As he said recently in a french jazz magazine "he loves every religion who speaks about a creator". Along his career he knew to surrond himself with great apostles like Roy Haynes, Billy Hart or Idris Muhammad on drums, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee or Stanley Clarke on doublebass, Leon Thomas as a singer, Woody Shaw on trumpet or Lonnie Liston Smith on piano.
With an incredible song like Hum Allah, I give you the opportunity to get closer to the Almighty:
http://rapidshare.com/files/28161641/Pharoah_Sanders_hum_allah.mp3.html

Enjoy, 15min of meditation.....

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