RIP Pharoah Sanders

[humprof]

The creator had a master plan.

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/24/1124925662/pharoah-sanders-dies-at-81-obituaryhttps://pitchfork.com/news/pharoah-sanders-dies-at-81/

 

[Quad Linda]

RIP

Have lots of his stuff, incl. QS releases.

Jewels of Thought is his best, IMHO.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

The first time I heard him was in the 70s on an Impulse box set of the history of jazz bass.
It included the first side of Black Unity to showcase the interplay of two basses played by a young Stanley Clarke and Cecil McBee.
First taste of his unique free blowing and group improvisation on a live recording.

Bookended last year with the Promises project with Floating Points and London Symphony Orchestra.
A life well-lived, RIP

 

[4-earredwonder]

One of Pharoah's undisputed masterpieces from JEWELS OF THOUGHT. R.I.P. SOULFUL BROTHER!

 

[jefe1]

This thread sad news that it is made me recall that I actually saw him perform at a small club in Los Angeles some years ago. My disappointment at the time-was that he only played for around 20 minutes and let the young backing group carry on...

 

[Clement]

I fell in love with Pharoah Sanders when i was in high school, listening to John Coltrane albums: Live in Seattle, Kulu Sé Mama, Ascension, Expression, Om, Concert in Japan, . . . Right after high school, in the fall of 1980, i walked into the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago with a new friend i had met on campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago; We shared a love of jazz . . . and blues and punk and funk and rock and soul and . . . . This song was playing when We walked in:

I left the store with the double LP! It was unlike the Sanders i was used to with Trane, and yet, it was very much like the Sanders i knew and loved! I continued to acquire (as my materialistic self is wont to do!) more and more of Pharoah Sanders's work. I was blessed enough to see him live three times. In 1998, he spent the whole time between sets at the Jazz Showcase talking to me, showing me nothing but the LOVE i have always heard in his playing. So many wonderful memories coming back today. Long live Pharoah! He was on a Journey to the One, and he finally made it Home . . . the Home he never left! Stay Surrounded, Comrades!

 

[humprof]

I fell in love with Pharoah Sanders when i was in high school, listening to John Coltrane albums: Live in Seattle, Kulu Sé Mama, Ascension, Expression, Om, Concert in Japan, . . . Right after high school, in the fall of 1980, i walked into the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago with a new friend i had met on campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago who shared my love of jazz. This song was playing when We walked in:

I left the store with the double LP! It was unlike the Sanders i was used to with Trane, and yet, it was very much like the Sanders i knew and loved! I continued to acquire (as my materialistic self is wont to do!) more and more of Pharoah Sanders's work. I was blessed enough to see him live three times. In 1998, he spent the whole time between sets at the Jazz Showcase talking to me, showing me nothing but the LOVE i have always heard in his playing. So many wonderful memories coming back today. Long live Pharoah! He was on a Journey to the One, and he finally made it Home . . . the Home he never left! Stay Surrounded, Comrades!
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Amazing story, Brother C! I only had the opportunity to hear him once, in 2017, in one of the most unlikely bookings ever at my small-town college's community concert series. He seemed slightly diminished: in my memory, he may even have been escorted on and off stage, and he spent a lot of time seated, listening to the other cats in his quartet, especially the late Bill Henderson on piano. But when he got up to play, he still had a lot to say, and he said it with power!

 

[alansanchez86]

The first time I heard him was in the 70s on an Impulse box set of the history of jazz bass.
It included the first side of Black Unity to showcase the interplay of two basses played by a young Stanley Clarke and Cecil McBee.
First taste of his unique free blowing and group improvisation on a live recording.

Bookended last year with the Promises project with Floating Points and London Symphony Orchestra.
A life well-lived, RIP

playing this today.
RIP Pharoah

 

[dadregga]

Came to him late but he was my favorite living saxophonist and now one of the very, very best of the dead ones.

Massively underappreciated.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

My fav. with the 'Night Music' band
-and so many great players in that band, no longer with us also.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

When CDs became cheap last decade, I gratefully picked up several of his back catalog, including a couple of wonderful two-fers on Impulse.

Somehow I had always missed this one, listening now thanks to Apple in 48K DPLII(m).

Had no idea Santa Mac totally stole it for the second side of LDS.
Lonnie Liston Smith should have gotten credit and payment, but Carlos did give him some work.

Fingers crossed this time next year we'll have a 50th anniversary quad.

 

[~dave~~wave~]

https://www.mojo4music.com/articles...i-mean-every-note-pharoah-sanders-remembered/

 

[humprof]

So many people here who were deeply moved by Pharoah's music, I thought I'd post a few more of the better remembrances and assessments I've found:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...n-doors-the-ecstatic-power-of-pharoah-sandershttps://www.jazzwax.com/2022/09/pharoah-sanders-1940-2022.html