Jazz: America's Music

Pharoah Sanders | John Hicks
Live Frankfurt '86

first song is a Hicks composition, after that mostly all Pharoah and Trane tunes

00:00 After the Morning (Hicks)
12:26 After the Rain (Coltrane)
19:18 When Lights Are Low (B.Carter)
30:38 Giant Steps (Coltrane)
41:41 Heart to Heart (Sanders)
53:54 Central Park West (Coltrane)
1:04:30 The Creator Has a Master Plan/Thembi (Sanders)
1:12:30 Little Rock's Blues (Sanders)

BANNED, but a fun click

may i raise a question of procedure for the sake of clarity
should it always be assumed the st. john trane is fired by wood wind not cole

Yes. That sets to right the previous misapprehension that it was fired by earthquake wind and fire

my motto is sure hope the rhode island line is on the right side of providence today and makes it safely back to the station after newport performances

pleasantly reminded of this again today

hopefully y'all enjoy the first plus four minutes as much i did and continue listening for the next two hours

Tony Williams tickling cymbals behind Fred, Herbie, and i stubbornly hand slicing the brass knuckles off a bored but willing Joe Henderson while spider finger Ron Carter gets his bass off in the background

my drone brain can not envelop, so i land here

Ron Carter was the only bassist who played for those entire two hours

ya that's nice

speaking of Joe Henderson

Henderson came so close to becoming the first next Shorter, Trane, or Pharroah until he suddently didn't
sure had the perfect rhythm section to give it the ol' collagen try

A jazz club owner once told me he was so nodded out on heroin the whole time he was in her club that she wouldn't have him back.

dat trumpet

I don't want to appear prejudiced, or appear to be rushing to judgement, but that does not look like a cat I would care to mess with. jmo

looks to be the type of feline to drink a lot of schlitz, hmmm

consider the Pharoah Sanders 1969 release Karma
recorded two months before i was born
as my spirit album

it includes the initial vinyl release of The Creator Has A Master Plan

but this french video below
recorded almost a year earlier
may be one of the first times a crowd heard it played live

Antibes Jazz Festival
July 21, 1968

Pharoah Sanders - tenor sax
Lonnie Liston Smith - piano
Norris 'Sirone' Jones - bass
Najeed Shabazz - drums

Ytubies user comment
February, 2025
[QUOTE=@danielperasso9163 4 months ago]
Experimental jazz titan Pharoah Sanders made a lasting impact with his unorthodox approach to tenor saxophone. For this blistering performance, given at the Antibes Jazz Festival of 1968 and broadcast on French radio station WDR3, the quartet moves through various Sanders free-jazz workouts, taking in "Venus" from the Tauhid album (1967) and "The Creator Has A Master Plan" from Karma (1969) along the way, with the rhythm section holding down the fort as Sanders blows himself into the stratosphere.[/QUOTE]

from the start they have such a wonderful vibe going - especially Shabazz bending drum skin notes blended with crispy rim shots - then around the 5:30 mark Pharoah comes screeching in inviting pigeons to fly against a falcon wind shear.
they furiously wing it through his initial wake and somehow survive passing through the eyes aftermath

how they all reassemble rhythm back together after that is quite remarkable
another example of the intentional disruption of free jazz as a path to make up sax

one of my favorite drummers

you introduced me to her/them and i want to thank you

With love to lead the way
I found more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play
Could guarantee

(This happens when I start searching for covers.)

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wonderful rendition.

When the three smartest kids in class do a project together.

Thanks for opening my ears to all this music I've never heard, y'all who contribute with these recommendations.

This new Tiny Desk concert with Stanley Clarke was posted last week, and it is so good. Some of the solo sections are shortened a bit, since they had to fit 4 songs into about 20 minutes, but I just love the personality of this band. Props to Stanley for surrounding himself with all these young musicians and giving them the opportunity to gain experience and shine. Also like how he does the first 2 tunes on acoustic, then switches to electric for the final two.

that version of Yesterday Princess was crushed velvet
also enjoyed their gradual transition by degrees from acoustic to electric

happy to see you hang around for a bit wolff
please feel encouraged to share whatever jazz you find enjoyable