Pharoah Sanders
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Hum-Allah, hey Prince of peace won't you hear our pleas --"Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah (Prince of Peace)" (1969) by Pharoah Sanders The creator has a master plan, --"The Creator Has a Master Plan" (1969) by Pharoah Sanders "On the Sanders album, Jewels of Thought, released in 1969 is a song entitled “Hum Allah – Hum Allah – Hum Allah,” which makes clear how much Islam had become part of the zeitgeist of the 1960s for African Americans."--The Cambridge Companion to Boxing (2019) Gerald Early |
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Pharoah Sanders (1940 – 2022) was an American saxophonist active in jazz. A member of John Coltrane's groups of the mid-1960s, Sanders was known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound". He released over 30 albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with Leon Thomas and Alice Coltrane, among others.
Sanders' music has been called spiritual jazz due to his inspiration in religious concepts such as tawhid on Tauhid (1967) and karma on Karma (1969), and his rich, meditative aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as A Love Supreme.
Noteworthy compositions include "The Creator Has a Master Plan" (1969), "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah (Prince of Peace)" (1969), "Astral Traveling" (1971), "Harvest Time" (1976) and "You've Got to Have Freedom" (1980).
"You've Got to Have Freedom" was of influence on the British acid jazz ans soul jazz scene from the late 1980s and 1990s.
Discography
As leader
Title | Year Recorded | Year Released | Label |
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Pharoah's First (also released as Pharoah and Pharoah Sanders Quintet) | 1964 | 1965 | ESP-Disk |
Tauhid | 1966 | 1967 | Impulse! |
Karma | 1969 | 1969 | Impulse! |
Jewels of Thought | 1969 | 1969 | Impulse! |
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) | 1970 | 1970 | Impulse! |
Thembi | 1970–1971 | 1971 | Impulse! |
Black Unity | 1971 | 1971 | Impulse! |
Live at the East | 1971 | 1972 | Impulse! |
Wisdom Through Music | 1972 | 1972 | Impulse! |
Izipho Zam (My Gifts) | 1969 | 1973 | Strata-East |
Village of the Pharoahs | 1971–1973 | 1973 | Impulse! |
Love in Us All | 1973 | 1973 | Impulse! |
Elevation | 1973 | 1974 | Impulse! |
Pharoah | 1976 | 1977 | India Navigation |
Love Will Find a Way | 1977 | 1977 | Arista |
Journey to the One | 1979 | 1980 | Theresa |
Beyond a Dream | 1978 | 1981 | Arista |
Rejoice | 1981 | 1981 | Theresa |
Pharoah Sanders Live... | 1981 | 1982 | Theresa |
Heart Is a Melody | 1982 | 1983 | Theresa |
Shukuru | 1981 | 1985 | Theresa |
Africa | 1987 | 1987 | Timeless |
Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong | 1987 | 1987 | Doctor Jazz |
A Prayer Before Dawn | 1987 | 1987 | Theresa |
Moon Child | 1989 | 1989 | Timeless |
Welcome to Love | 1990 | 1991 | Timeless |
Crescent with Love | 1992 | 1992 | Evidence/Venus |
Ballads with Love | 1992 | 1994 | Venus |
Naima | 1992 | 1995 | Evidence |
Message from Home | 1996 | 1996 | Verve |
Save Our Children | 1997 | 1999 | Verve |
Spirits | 2000 | 2000 | Meta |
The Creator Has a Master Plan | 2003 | 2003 | Venus |
With a Heartbeat | 2003 | 2003 | Evolver Records |
In the Beginning 1963-1964 (4 CD compilation) | 1963–1964 | 2012 | ESP-Disk |
Live in Paris (1975) (Lost ORTF Recordings) | 1975 | 2020 | Transversales Disques |
Spotlight on Pharoah Sanders with the Latin Jazz Quintet | 1973 | 1973 | Up Front (UPF-150) |
As sideman
- with John Coltrane
- Ascension (Impulse!, 1965)
- Live In Seattle (Impulse!, 1965)
- Om (Impulse!, 1965)
- A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (Impulse!, 1965)
- Kulu Sé Mama (Impulse!, 1965)
- Selflessness: Featuring My Favorite Things (Impulse!, 1965)
- Meditations (Impulse!, 1965)
- Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (Impulse!, 1966)
- Live In Japan (Impulse!, 1966)
- Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse!, 1966)
- Expression (Impulse!, 1967)
- The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording (Impulse!, 1967)
- with Don Cherry
- Symphony for Improvisers (Blue Note, 1966)
- Where Is Brooklyn? (Blue Note, 1967)
- with Alice Coltrane
- A Monastic Trio (Impulse!, 1968)
- Ptah, the El Daoud (Impulse!, 1970)
- Journey in Satchidananda (Impulse!, 1970)
- with Kenny Garrett
- Beyond the Wall (Nonesuch, 2006)
- Sketches of MD: Live at the Iridium (Mack Avenue, 2008)
- with Norman Connors
- Romantic Journey (Buddah 1977)
- This Is Your Life (Buddah 1978)
- Beyond a Dream (Novus 1981)
- Remember Who You Are (MoJazz 1993)
- with Tisziji Muñoz
- Visiting This Planet (Anami Music, 1980's)
- River of Blood (Anami Music, 1997)
- Present Without a Trace (Anami Music, 1980's)
- Spirit World (Anami Music, 1997)
- Divine Radiance (Dreyfus/Anami Music, 2003)
- Divine Radiance Live! (Anami Music, 2013)
- Mountain Peak (Anami Music, 2014)
- with McCoy Tyner
- Love & Peace (Trio 1982)
- Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1987)
- with Randy Weston
- The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Verve 1992)
- Khepera (Verve 1998)
- with others
- 1964 – Sun Ra – Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
- 1965 – Ornette Coleman – Chappaqua Suite (Columbia)
- 1968 – Michael Mantler – Jazz Composer's Orchestra – The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (JCOA)
- 1968 – Gary Bartz – Another Earth (Milestone)
- 1969 – Leon Thomas – Spirits Known and Unknown (Flying Dutchman)
- 1973 – Larry Young – Lawrence of Newark (Perception)
- 1979 – Ed Kelly – Ed Kelly & Friend (Theresa Records)
- 1979 – Hilton Ruiz – Fantasia (Denon)
- 1980 – Idris Muhammad – Kabsha (Theresa)
- 1984 – Benny Golson – This Is for You, John (Baystate)
- 1985 – Art Davis – Life
- 1991 – Sonny Sharrock – Ask the Ages (Axiom)
- 1992 – Ed Kelly – Ed Kelly and Pharoah Sanders (Evidence Records) with Robert Stewart (saxophonist)
- 1992 – New York Unit – Over the Rainbow (Paddle Wheel)
- 1994 – Franklin Kiermyer – Solomon's Daughter
- 1994 – Bheki Mseleku – Timelessness (Verve)
- 1994 – Maleem Mahmoud Ghania – The Trance of Seven Colors (Axiom)
- 1995 – Aïyb Dieng – Rhythmagick
- 1996 – Jah Wobble – Heaven & Earth (Island)
- 1997 – Wallace Roney – Village (Warner Bros.)
- 1997 – Music Revelation Ensemble – Cross Fire (DIW)
- 1998 – Terry Callier – Time Peace (Verve)
- 2000 – Alex Blake – Now is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory
- 2000 – Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio – Africa N'Da Blues (Delmark)
- 2004 – David Murray – Gwotet (Justin Time)
- 2005 – Will Calhoun – Native Lands
- 2008 – Sleep Walker – Into the Sun (in The Voyage)
- 2014 – Chicago Underground/São Paulo Underground – Spiral Mercury
- 2019 – Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe
- 2021 – Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra – Promises