Pharoah Sanders

• 180 GRAM VINYL EDITION

Classic spiritual soul jazz from Pharoah Sanders – recorded with an all star lineup that includes Lonnie Liston Smith, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes, and Michael White. The album's got a strong influence from the members on the set – particularly Lonnie Liston Smith, who seems to bring in a very nicely soulful approach to a few of the numbers, and Michael White, whose spiritual consciousness is still a bit rough-hewn and personal at this point.

The record oddly shifts mood from track to track – going from the mellow soul of "Astral Traveling", into the loud free jazz of "Red Black & Green", to the modal grooving of "Thembi", and into the spiritual joy of "Love" and "Bailophone Dance" – all of which makes for a really wonderful album, one of Pharoah's strongest statements of the time!

PERSONNEL:

• Pharoah Sanders - soprano & tenor sax
• Michael White - violin, percussion
• Lonnie Liston Smith - electirc piano, vocals
• Cecil McBee - bass
• Roy Haynes - drums
• Majid Shabazz - percussion
• Anthony Wiles - percussion
• Nat Bettis - percussion

Los Angeles, November 25, 1970 and New York City, January 12, 1971

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Astral Traveling
• A2. Red, Black & Green
• A3. Thembi

• SIDE B
• B1. Love
• B2. Morning Prayer
• B3. Bailophone Dance