The Fender Rhodes is the most famous electric piano in the world. Part of this is because it was there at the right time; one of the low numbered MIDI voices is the Rhodes piano. The other part of that is the incredible sounds it makes. Half the time they don't sound like a piano at all, shimmering and ethereal, full of tremelo. The first time Lonnie Liston Smith got his hands on a Rhodes was in 1971 when he walked into the studio to record the album Thembi with Pharoah Sanders. [...]
After Trane, Pharoah Sanders was the tenor saxophonist who most startled me, made me rethink the sound of the saxophone and re-appreciate what could be done with the horn. Trane, of course, was the brightest light in the constellation of sounds I knew as jazz. There were many others whom I liked but none of them were a North Star, a guide to what was possible, to where we could go when we were free to go wherever we wanted to go, wherever we were capable of going; or, as we said critiquing our own limitations: we can do anything [...]
Dear Captain Awesome, I'm writing you this email because my ears are exhausted from listening to new age music and I would like you to help me discover new genres of music (Well, new for me and I suppose, old for the world). As a child I've been exposed to Nat King Cole and Louis Armstrong and I've been singing standard songs like 'Funny Valentine' and 'Summertime' ever since I could remember, but I haven't really taken the time to make jazz music my own. Actually, I haven't even taken the time to acquaint myself with [...]
This is the work of a confident explorer willing to go anywhere and do anything, and a cursory glance at Sanders' unsmiling album covers from 1973 makes the conditions clear: strap in and come along for the ride because once we start we aren't slowing down. Raise your hand if you've been holding out hope that more of Pharoah Sanders' early '70s catalog would finally get remastered and/or released for the first time on CD. Anyone? Well, there weren't necessarily people clamoring for this music even during the era it was made. But certainly more people had at least [...]
My plan to blog more was slightly thwarted by travel: i'm in New England at the moment, and internet access has been a bit sporadic, so i've been doing analogue stuff like reading books and playing piano. Crazy , i know. Anyway, i've been working out this Pharoah Sanders piece, which is tremendous fun. It's kind of a palate cleanser in the middle of the parent LP Elevation , a joyful 5-minute respite from the crazed overblown reed and piano soloing surrounding it (which, don't get me wrong, is also great). i've been listening [...]
Originally posted 11 April 2007 KHALID OF SPACE, PART TWO: WELCOME Larry Young Lawrence of Newark Perception : 1973 CD Universe / iTunes [seemingly out of print again] LY, organ, bongos, vocals; Pharoah Sanders [credited as 'Mystery Guest'], saxophones and vocals; James Blood Ulmer, guitar; Charles Magee, electric trumpet; Dennis Mourouse, sax and electric sax; Cedric Lawson, electric piano; Deirdre Johnson, [...]
Originally posted 11 April 2007 KHALID OF SPACE, PART TWO: WELCOME Larry Young Lawrence of Newark Perception : 1973 CD Universe / iTunes [seemingly out of print again] LY, organ, bongos, vocals; Pharoah Sanders [credited as 'Mystery Guest'], saxophones and vocals; James Blood Ulmer, guitar; Charles Magee, electric trumpet; Dennis Mourouse, sax and electric sax; Cedric Lawson, electric piano; Deirdre Johnson, [...]
i'm starting to think that maybe the scheduled rapture may well be going to happen after all at 6pm Pacific Time – 2am Sunday GMT – just because everyone's taking such great pleasure in the certainty that it won't, and so wholeheartedly embracing all the attendant possibilities for believer-bashing. 1 Sort of like The Boy Who Cried Apocalypse, or something. Anyway, i thought it was only right to draw together some sort of short mix of stuff [...]
The world seems to have lost interest in mash-ups, and rightfully so. Most of the time they seem to consist of little more than an 'ironic' pop vocal slapped onto the instrumental of whatever happens to be the coolest track in indie clubs at the time. How refreshing, then, to find a project that is more reworking than mash-up, and that actually yields some interesting results. A few months back, a graphic designer called Logan Walters decided, apropos nothing, to rework Wu-Tang album covers as if they had been released by legendary [...]
T wo years after the death of his mentor and boss, John Coltrane , and just before signing his own contract with Impulse!, Pharoah Sanders finally got around to releasing an album as a leader apart from the Impulse! family. Enlisting a cast of characters no less than 13 in number, Sanders proved that his time with Coltrane and his Impulse! debut, Tauhid, was not a fluke. Though hated by many of the jazz musicians at the [...]
Holy shit I'm tired. And by that I mean "here's another Spotify monthly playlist from the grandiose ears of self" or some other shite like that... There shall be mentaldom, animals fighting out to the death and probably boogieing while we're at it!!Hooray and stuff.... I'm off to make some nice tea.June 2010 PlaylistDandi Wind "Umbilical Noose" (Bait the Tapes, 2005 Bongo Beat Records) Buy
Une petite compile/compilée par mes soins. A écouter les yeux fermés et le coeur en mouvement. Quelques menus extraits: Matt Elliott - End Pharoah Sanders - Myth Lonnie Donegan - Lonesome Traveller POLLYester - The Indian (Mock Toof Remix) La compile : Train De Jour
BERTHA BAPTIST Gary Bartz Ntu Troop Juju Street Songs Prestige : 1972 BG, alto sax, percussion; Andy Bey, electric piano; Stafford James, bass; Howard King, drums, percussion. McCoy Tyner's Expansions ... Miles Davis's Live-Evil ...Mtume's Alkebu-lan ...Pharoah Sanders' Summun Bukmun Umyun ...for a period there in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gary Bartz was showing up in all the right places. And setting it down right in the pocket, however deep [...]
HEALING SONG Pharaoh Sanders Live at the East Impulse : 1972 PS, tenor sax; Joseph Bonner, piano, harmonium; Lonnie Liston Smith, piano, flute, percussion; Marvin Peterson, trumpet; Carlos Garnett, flute, vocals; Harold Vick, vocals, sax; Stanley Clarke, bass; Cecil McBee, bass; Lawrence Killian, congas and bailophone; William Hart, drums. Maybe it's the encroaching winter, maybe it's the crappy economy, but these days we find ourselves fighting off the doldrums. Supposing that maybe you could use [...]
Pharoah Sanders – Greeting to Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner) (zshare)
It's all too easy to do very bad things with "world" music. First you get spiritual. Then you get ambient. Then you do a record that makes you sound like a massive, condescending prick. This is why Doklands remains firmly behind the great Pharoah Sanders, as however dodgy the premise of some of his records may seem, the result always transcends something, avoids the pitfalls of the other, and generally comes out being much better than you had feared. Here's another cut from his 1999 album, recorded with percussionists Trilok Gurtu and Zakir Hussain, [...]
Mary Anne Hobbs does for electronica on her BBC Radio 1 show what John Peel did for everything, and for years now she has been delivering L.A.'s best beatmakers to the world. When she first came to L.A. as a girl, she wore a glitter bikini and drove a motorcycle to Hollywood bars to drink with Megadeth, but tonight she'll be doing a special DJ set at Low End Theory. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN UTOPIA & VISIONS BRA JOE FROM KILIMANJARO Don Cherry Organic Music Society Caprice : 1972 DC, trumpet, voice, piano; Maffy Falay, muted trumpet; Tommy Goldman, flute; Tommy Koverhult, flute; Tage Siven, bass; Okay Temiz, drums; and various visitors and friends. For "Bra Joe," it's Cherry and Temiz plus a 50-piece Youth Orchestra. Organic Music , a.k.a. Don Cherry down [...]
Over at our NME blog Thee Fair-Ohs were nice enough to tell us about their ferocious sub-sixty-second single, I'm A Woman I'm Your Wife. The trio also went big on our 321 questions. Check out their epic answers after the jump and sample some of their favourite tracks, from Pharoah Sanders to Billy Childish.
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