Pharoah Sanders

• JAPANESE IMPORT

• IMPULSE - 60th ANNIVERSARY

• FREE JAZZ SAXOPHONE COLLECTION

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

The photo of Sanders in lotus position, generously collared psychedelic shirt poking out from under his white robes, says it all. Having abandoned the Ayler-influenced sound of Pharoah's First, released almost a decade previously, by Village Of The Pharoahs the saxophonist had jumped with both feet into the soaring and the spiritual. The album is a slightly mixed bag, with material from the main San Francisco sessions bulked out with tracks recorded in New Jersey and New York. It's also unusual in that Sanders plays tenor on just one track, the rest of the time contributing a combination of soprano, bells, percussion and vocals.

PERSONNEL:

• 01. VILLAGE OF THE PHAROAHS, Part I
• Calvin Hill - bass
• Lawrence Killian - congas
• Jimmy Hopps - drums
• Kenneth Nash - drums, percussion
• Joe Bonner - piano, flute
• Pharoah Sanders - soprano sax
• Kylo Kylo - tambura, percussion
• Sedatrius Brown - vocals, percussion

• 02. VILLAGE OF THE PHAROAHS, Part II
• Calvin Hill - bass
• Lawrence Killian - congas
• Jimmy Hopps - drums
• Kenneth Nash - drums, percussion
• Joe Bonner - piano, flute
• Pharoah Sanders - soprano sax
• Kylo Kylo - tambura, percussion
• Sedatrius Brown - vocals, percussion

• 03. VILLAGE OF THE PHAROAHS, Part III
• Calvin Hill - bass
• Lawrence Killian - conga
• Jimmy Hopps - drums
• Kenneth Nash - drums, percussion
• Joe Bonner - piano, flute, percussion
• Pharoah Sanders - soprano sax
• Kylo Kylo - tambura
• Sedatrius Brown - vocals, percussion

• 04- MYTH
• Calvin Hill - bass
• Kenneth Nash - percussion
• Joe Bonner, Lawrence Killian, Pharoah Sanders, Sedatrius Brown - vocals

• 05. MANSION WORLDS
• Cecil McBee, Stanley Clark - bass
• Lawrence Killian - congas
• Norman Connors - drums
• Marvin Peterson - percussion
• Joe Bonner - piano
• Pharoah Sanders - soprano sax

• 06. MEMORIES OF LEE MORGAN
• Cecil McBee, Stanley Clark - bass
• Norman Connors - drums
• Arthur Webb - flute
• Joe Bonner - piano
• Pharoah Sanders - soprano sax

• 07. WENT LIKE IT CAME
• Calvin Hill - bass
• Lawrence Killian - congas
• Jimmy Hopps - drums
• Kenneth Nash, Kylo Kylo - percussion
• Joe Bonner - piano
• Pharoah Sanders - tenor sax, vocals
• Sedatrius Brown - vocals, percussion