October 12, 2022 Playlist

Pharoah Sanders "Tauhid" (1967)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Pharoah Sanders "Tauhid"  1967 (USA)
Pharoah Sanders just passed away, a few weeks before his 82nd birthday. He played saxophone with Sun Ra and John Coltrane back in he 1960's, and after Trane's death Pharoah became one of the leaders of the "spiritual jazz" movement along with Alice Coltrane (they also played together on a half dozen albums). His final album was a collaboration with electronic music project Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra that came out in 2021. One of his finest albums, and arguably most important, was this week's CAOTW which was his second album as a leader, and his debut with the Impulse! record label. At the time this was recorded, Pharoah was still in John Coltrane's band, though he struck out in an entirely different direction on his own record. Coltrane's music of this period was extremely chaotic, and "songs" would often jam on for 20 to 60 minutes of unstructured improvisation. Sanders' album includes plenty of free jamming, but reins it in to achieve a more "cosmic, flowing" vibe, and he was also more into funky grooves than Trane ever was. It really isn't that much like the jazz that came before it at all - even the forward-thinking bosses at Impulse! weren't sure what to do with it, but it was the sixties maaaan, and Tauhid turned out to be a harbinger of where jazz was going next. This album even includes nasty pre-fusion electric guitar for the rock-heads, courtesy of the brilliant and unsung Sonny Sharrock (this was certainly the most acclaimed album Sharrock ever played on, if not the best-selling.) The first song on this record, a 16-miunte suite called "Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt" is the standout cut on the album - and was so groovy, the revolutionary hippie-punk band MC5 played an acid rock version of it.
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
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Pharoah Sanders
(with Sonny Sharrock)		Upper Egypt And Lower EgyptTauhid
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1967USA
John Coltrane
(with Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones & Rashied Ali)		The Father And The Son And The Holy Ghost
   --> Compassion		Meditations1966USA
   
 
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