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Pharoah Sanders - The Impulse Story (2006)

Исполнитель: Pharoah Sanders
Название альбома: The Impulse Story
Год выпуска: 2006
Формат файлов: mp3, 320 kbps
Размер архива: 138.28 mb
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Like the Archie Shepp and Alice Coltrane volumes in the Impulse Story series, the Pharoah Sanders issue is one of the flawless ones - despite the fact that it only contains four tracks. Ashley Kahn, author of the book the series is named after, wisely chose tracks with Sanders as a leader rather than as a sideman with John Coltrane (those were documented quite well on the John and Alice volumes). The set begins with "Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt," recorded in 1966 while he was still a member of the Coltrane band. Featuring Sanders on tenor, piccolo, percussion, and vocals, it also contains a who's who of the vanguard: pianist Dave Burrell, guitarist Sonny Sharrock, bassist Henry Grimes, percussionist Nat Bettis, and drummer Roger Blank. Sanders could take a disparate group of players like this one and wind them into his sound world. Burrell is the most automatically sympathetic, and lends a hand in creating a series of call-and-response exchanges with Sanders so Sharrock and Grimes follow suit - not the other way around. This is also the place where the listener really encounters Sharrock's unique (even iconoclastic) playing - he performed on Miles Davis' seminal Jack Johnson album but was mixed out. At over 16 minutes, it is barely a hint of what is to come. This cut is followed by Sanders' magnum opus, "The Creator Has a Master Plan." Based on a simple vamp, it unravels into an almost 33-minute textured improvisation that sounds like it could move heaven and earth because it almost literally explodes. Recorded for the Karma album in 1969, "The Creator" also features the late great Leon Thomas on vocals, providing his eerie, deep, and soulful "voice as improvisational instrument" approach that sends the tune soaring. Other sidemen here are bassists Richard Davis and Reggie Workman, James Spaulding, Julius Watkins, pianist Lonnie Liston Smith, Bettis, and drummer Billy Hart. This is where this track belongs, not on the box where it took time and space away from other artists. "Astral Traveling," from the 1970 platter Thembi, follows, with the great violinist Michael White serving as foil to the lyric Pharoah. The last two tracks really chart Sanders' development not just as an improviser and composer but as a bandleader and in his mastery of the soprano saxophone - only Steve Lacy and Coltrane did it better. The sprawl is tightened - this cut is less than six minutes long - but mainly in the way he leads the band with his approach to the saxophone and its dynamics. Cecil McBee plays bass here and Clifford Jarvis is on drums, and Smith uses an electric piano to fantastic effect. The final cut here, "Spiritual Blessing" from the Elevation album in 1973, is widely regarded as another Sanders classic with the man himself on soprano. He is accompanied by a group of percussionists, including Michael Carvin, Jimmy Hopps, John Blue, and Lawrence Killian. Sanders uses the percussionists as a counter to the featured drone instruments (with Joe Bonner on harmonium and Calvin Hill on tamboura). At just under six minutes, it's a song that perfectly fuses Eastern and Western musical improvisational traditions. Listening to this volume of the course of an hour is literally an aurally expansive and spiritually enlightening experience. If you can only have one of the CDs in this series, this may be the one to snag -- along with Alice Coltrane's chapter, this is spiritual jazz at its very best.

1 Upper And Lower Egypt
Bass – Henry Grimes Drums – Roger Blank Guitar – Sonny Sharrock Percussion – Nat Bettis Piano – Dave Burrell Piccolo Flute – Pharoah Sanders Saxophone [Tenor] – Pharoah Sanders Voice – Pharoah Sanders
2 The Creator Has A Master Plan
Bass – Richard Davis Drums – Billy Hart Flute – James Spaulding French Horn – Julius Watkins Percussion – Leon Thomas, Nat Bettis Piano – Lonnie Liston Smith Producer – Bob Thiele Saxophone [Tenor] – Pharoah Sanders Vocals – Leon Thomas Written By – Amos Leon Thomas, Pharoah Sanders
3 Astral Traveling
Bells – Pharoah Sanders Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Lonnie Liston Smith Percussion – Cecil McBee, Lonnie Liston Smith, Michael White, Pharoah Sanders Piano – Lonnie Liston Smith Saxophone [Soprano, Tenor] – Pharoah Sanders Violin – Michael White
4 Spiritual Blessing
Bells [Bell Tree] – Lawrence Killian Drums – Michael Carvin Harmonium – Joe Bonner Percussion – Jimmy Hopps, John Blue Saxophone [Soprano] – Pharoah Sanders Tambura – Calvin Hill

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