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Pharoah Sanders discography 1985

Session 1, 5.07.1985, Berlin

Pharoah Sanders ts, voc
Joanne Brackeen p
Clinton Houston b
Victor Lewis dr

1.Speak Low (Nash-Weill) 20:05
2.Blues for Santa Cruz (Sanders) 14:58
3.Haiti B (Brackeen) 20:06
4.Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) 17:06
5.unidentified blues 22:00
6.unidentified title (Brackeen) 20:01

Private tape

Session 2, 6.07.1985, Hollabrunn

Pharoah Sanders ts, voc
Joanne Brackeen p
Clinton Houston b
Victor Lewis dr

1.Little Rock Blues (Sanders) 20:22
2.Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eaton) 18:13
3.Haiti B (Brackeen) 18:43
4.unidentified (prob. Brackeen)21:24

There is a 14 min video fragment of Haiti B broadcasted by the Austrian TV. Also an interview with Pharoah with a very short performance fragment (about 1 min long) (another Austrian TV broadcast

Private tape

Session 3, 3.08.1985, Chicago

Pharoah Sanders reeds, voc
William Henderson p
Walter Booker b
Idris Muhammad dr

1.Doktor Pitt (Sanders) 14:42
2.Blues (Sanders) 12:44
3.Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eaton) 11:54
4.The Creator Has a Master Plan (Sanders-Thomas) 9:54
5.Equinox (Coltrane) 20:08
6.Hilife (Sanders) 6:27
7.Too Young to Go Steady

Private tape

Session 4, Art Davis Quartet, New York City, 5.10.1985

Pharoah Sanders ts
John Hicks p
Art Davis b
Idris Mohammed dr

1.Life (A. Davis) 10:32
2.Duo (Davis-Sanders) 3:26
3.Blues From Concertpiece For Bass (A. Davis) 7:12
4.Add (A. Davis) 19:25

Issued as ART DAVIS QUARTET – LIFE – Soul Note SN 1143 CD

Session 5, 18.12.1985, Messina, Italy

Pharoah Sanders reeds, voc
Kirk Lightsey p
Reggie Johnson b
Alvin Queen dr

1. Doktor Pitt (Sanders) 21:42
2. Blues (Sanders) 15:25
3. Naima (Coltrane) 14:48
4. unidentified 6:35
5. Giant Steps (Coltrane) 11:36

6. The Creator Has a Master Plan/Heart Is a Melody (Sanders-Thomas) 6:52

Session 6, Teatro Sperimentale, Ancona, Italy, 20.12.1985

Pharoah Sanders ts, voc
Kirk Lightsey p
Reggie Johnson b
Alvin Queen dr

1.Doktor Pitt (Sanders) 12:20
2.Naima (Coltrane) 17:23
3.Blues for Santa Cruz (Sanders) 18:55
4.Heart Is a Melody (Sanders) 10:47

>From the TV broadcast.

Private tape

Session 7, 27.12.1985, Paris

Pharoah Sanders reeds, voc
Michel Grailler p
Reggie Johnson b
Oliver Johnson dr
Abdoul Cheikh perc

Set 1:

1.You've Got to Have Freedom (Sanders) 12:08
2.Blues (Sanders) 10:35
3.The Creator Has a Master Plan (Sanders-Thomas) 11:01

Set 2:

1.Shukuru (Sanders) 19:59
2.Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eaton) 10:51
3.Blues (Sanders) 14:39
4.Naima (Coltrane) 9:14
5.The Creator Has a Master Plan (Sanders-Thomas) 5:18

Set 1 incomplete. There's a lot of mess with the recordings from these Paris dates. This is the most possible order of the tracks. Additional difficulties cause different tapes with different speeds of the same recordings. See also 1.01.1986 - the rest of the Paris seesions.

Private tape

 

 

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