Pharoah Sanders

• JAPANESE IMPORT

• IMPULSE - 60th ANNIVERSARY

• FREE JAZZ SAXOPHONE COLLECTION

• LIMITED EDITION SHM-CD (Super High Material CD)!

No one navigates a stormy sea and subsequent repose quite like avant garde pilot Pharoah Sanders. We are invited here to join the personnel in transcendental affirmations of peace, reassured by the yodeling of Leon Thomas and happy, revelatory ... Full Descriptionpiano work of the one and only Lonnie Liston Smith. Chimes, African thumb piano, and the talking hourglass drum are just some of the other elements which make this album musically and culturally compelling. The compositional minimalism of JEWELS OF THOUGHT is a major thread through Sanders albums of this period, setting up a sparse canvas for colorful tenor saxophone meditations. In one instance Sanders' playing may be soft, beckoning and glad, while elsewhere his saxophone becomes a crazed, outraged beast unleashing its fury on the world. Regardless of which way these compositions lead, listeners are made to feel more like sonic travelers than mere consumers.

PERSONNEL:

• Richard Davis - bass, percussion (on #2, #3)
• Roy Haynes - drums (on #1)
• Cecil McBee - bass, percussion
• Idris Muhammad - drums, percussion
• Pharoah Sanders - tenor sax, contrabass clarinet, reed flute, percussion
• Lonnie Liston Smith - piano, African flute, kalimba, percussion
• Leon Thomas - percussion, vocals

Recorded in New Jersey on November 15, 1966

TRACKS:

• 01. Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah
• 02. Sun In Aquarius (Part I)
• 03. Sun In Aquarius (Part II)