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Pharoah Sanders at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Pharoah Sanders SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA September 22, 2017 As a senior statesmen of the saxophone, Pharoah Sanders requires no introduction to jazz afficianados. Nor is he a stranger to San Francisco's jazz scene: He has lived just across the bay, having resided in Oakland after high school. Chances these days to see this Bay Area legend on his home turf are few and far between, so his appearance at SFJAZZ, where he headlined one ...
Continue ReadingBrooklyn Raga Massive & Pharoah Sanders @ BRIC Festival
by Adrien H. Tillmann
Arancio, nero e nostalgia: tempo di ristampe in casa Impulse!
by Luca Canini
Piovono ristampe in casa Impulse!. Un diluvio benedetto a tinte arancionere che riporta sugli scaffali dei negozi classicissimi e rarità a prezzi stracciati. Non il massimo l'operazione dal punto di vista filologico: grafica discutibile, copertine originali incrociate grossolanamente, rimasterizzazione discreta ma non eccelsa, note riprodotte in miniatura e in alcuni casi praticamente illeggibili; ma il rapporto qualità/prezzo è talmente buono (tra i 5 e i 10 euro per un viaggio in prima classe nella storia del jazz), che per una ...
Continue ReadingPharaoh Sanders at SFJAZZ
by Harry S. Pariser
Pharoah Sanders SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA January 9, 2014 Pharoah Sanders is hardly a stranger to San Francisco. Residing just across the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the 74-year-old saxophonist has performed in the city on numerous occasions, including a solo gig at Grace Cathedral for SFJAZZ some years back. For this performance, SFJAZZ brought him back for a four-night gig, this time at its own hall and in the company of three seasoned musicians.
Continue ReadingPharoah Sanders: The Pharoah Sanders Story: In the Beginning 1963-1965
by AAJ Italy Staff
Insieme ai più anziani Ornette Coleman, Paul Bley, Roswell Rudd e Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders resta uno dei grandi testimoni viventi della stagione in cui il jazz si liberò degli ormeggi armonici, ritmici, sintattici e semantici per intraprendere la grande e tuttora non esaurita esperienza del free. Come ricordano le eccellenti note di copertina di questo disco, il sassofonista è l'unico superstite dell'ultima formazione guidata da Coltrane. Il cofanetto di quattro CD, compilato dalla storica etichetta newyorchese ESP Disk, che ...
Continue ReadingPharoah Sanders: Thembi
by Chris May
Pharoah SandersThembiImpulse!1971 It is strange that two of the most striking albums made by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders during the first flush of late 1960s/early 1970s astral jazz have been so often overlooked in reissue series. Tauhid (Impulse!, 1967)--the recording which launched astral jazz, the style Sanders fashioned alongside harpist/pianist Alice Coltrane--and Thembi have been available only intermittently during the last 20 years. Tauhid is unalloyed bliss from start ...
Continue ReadingPharoah Sanders, Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph: Spirits
by Chris May
Pharoah Sanders, Hamid Drake, Adam RudolphSpiritsMeta2000 Following the death of saxophonist John Coltrane in 1967, two of his band members, pianist/harpist Alice Coltrane and saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, aligned themselves to fashion--separately and together--music which became known as “astral jazz." The style foregrounded the African and Asian song forms, and percussion and drone instruments, which John Coltrane had explored during his final years, while favoring lyrical, leisurely improvisations in place of the intense, ...
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