Album Info
Group...: MiX
Artist..: Pharoah Sanders
Album...: The Impulse Story
Genre...: Jazz
Label...: Impulse! Records
Rls Date: 25-Jun-2006
Grabber.: EAC
Encoder.: Lame 3.97b APS
Quality.: VBRkbps - 44.1kHz - Joint-Stereo
Track Listing
##. Track Title Time
01. Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt 16:22
02. The Creator Has A Master Plan 32:51
03. Astral Traveling 05:52
04. Spiritual Blessing 05:45
Total Time: 60:50
Total Size: 89,9 MB
Release Notes
For John Coltrane, 1965 was a year of fervent experimentation that found him, at
one point or another, doubling almost every instrument in his group. It was also
the year Coltrane began to increasingly invite saxophonist Pharoah Sanders to
join his group as his second and complement. Since when did Coltrane need another
tenor player, was the general reaction, and who was this guy with the growling,
anarchic sound anyway?
Pharoah was born Ferrell Sanders in 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and migrated
to Oakland after high school. He first crossed paths with Coltrane in San
Francisco around 1960, joining him on a Bay Area search for a saxophone
mouthpiece. Sanders made it to New York in 1962, entered the avant-garde edge of
the jazz scene, and recorded his first album for the tiny independent label ESP-
Disk.
In early 1965, Sanders was juggling a job as a cook and an irregular gig at an
East Village club. ôI was playing at this place called SlugÆs on a Saturday, and
I think it was sevenish,ö Sanders recalled of his reunion with Coltrane. ôIt was
only for about an hour and a half before the regular bands came out. I didnÆt
even know he was in the room ù I looked up and he was at the bar. I was into a
more modal kind of thing and he heard me play some of those tunes I wrote ù
æUpper and Lower EgyptÆ ù that was before I recorded it. He came up, we met each
other and talked very briefly. He said that he enjoyed the music.
That initial meeting led to an invitation to sit in with ColtraneÆs band. By mid
-Æ65, Coltrane had begun asking Sanders to participate in various recording
sessions and to join a West Coast run with the band. By the end of the year,
SandersÆs raw, frenetic tenor sound (he would later add flute, piccolo, and
percussion to his repertoire) had become one of the most prominent features in
ColtraneÆs retooled quintet, along with bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Rashied
Ali, and JohnÆs wife, pianist Alice Coltrane.
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