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Pharoah Sanders new and rereleases

Out in May 2007 - the first official DVD of Pharoah with the recordings from San Francisco 1981!

Setlist:

1 Doktor Pitt
2 Blues For Santa Cruz
3 Kazuko
4 Pharoah Interview with Herb Wong

On EVIDENCE. Details in 1981 and 1982 sections (see links from Official recording as a leader section)


Also ut in May 2007 - Method of Defiance new album - INAMORATA with a track called Ta'Wil featuring Pharoah Sanders and Submerged

Out in stores 31.08.2006: KENNY GARRETT - BEYOND THE WALL on Nonesuch records with Pharoah on many selections. Also for those who didn't get the SLEEP WALKER single 3 years ago - there is a new CD of this very good Japanese group called THE VOYAGE, issued in July on Village Again. It includes the selection with Pharoah. Descritptions soon


�AZA� - a group of WILL CALHOUN, featuring PHAROAH SANDERS, WALLACE RONEY, ORRIN EVANS & JOHN BENITEZ Recorded on �Blue Note� - CD to be released in April 2005
REVENANT label plans to issue in October the Holy Ghost - a 10-discs box set of Albert Ayler unpublished recordings. On one of the discs is unpublished session of Pharoah Sanders Quintet with A. Ayler from the late 60s. Venus/Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt (22:30). More info: HERE
Pharoah guesting on the new Phil Ranelin's album INSPIRATION (Wide Hive). In stores July/August 2004.


Especial Records band Sleepwalker finished recording some sessions with Pharoah Sanders.
Here's the news!

DAVID MURRAY CREOLE PROJECT III with PHAROAH SANDERS(usa/guadeloupe) I> jazz meets world music David Murray Creole Project III is a fusion of the harmonic structures of jazz, the rythmic accentuations of the Ka Drum of Guadeloupe, and the ritmalistic vocalization in the langage of creole. The group just completed its 3rd CD, recorded in the Caribbean which features the legendary tenor saxophonists Pharoah Sanders. The result of David and Pharoahs last collaboration " Blues for Coltrane " was a 88 Grammy Award. On stage, the growth of the improvisation, composition and interaction is evident. The group has developed into a genuine working band with a concept that often leaves audiences listening quite intensly and dancing in the ailes.

The record on JUSTIN TIME label should be presented on MIDEM fair in Cannes in January.

The record announced as Welcome on Venus Records TKCV35321 has been renamed. The name: THE CREATOR HAS A MASTER PLAN. Recorded in April this year in Tokyo with William Henderson, Ira Coleman and Joe Farnsworth. Here's the beautiful cover:

and here's a cover for the forthcoming MEDITATION 2 (Pharoah sanders Selections):


WOW!!!!!!!!!!

Finaly!!!! Soon, soon, soon - The Japanese editions of the never CD-reissued Pharoah Impulse albums!!!!!!!
And more!!!!

■8/21発売(Venus Records)
・Welcome

■9/21発売(BOMBA)
・Izipho Zam

■9/26発売(SUBSTANCE)
・Journey To The One (紙ジャケ 仕様)
・Rejoice (紙ジャケ仕様)
・Shukuru (紙ジャケ仕様)
・Meditation - Pharoah Sanders Selections Take 2

■10/15発売(Universal Jazz)
・Elevation (Remaster 紙ジャケ仕様)!!!!!!!
・Love In Us All (Remaster 紙ジャケ仕様) !!!!!!!
・Thembi (Remaster 紙ジャケ仕様)
・Meditation - Pharoah Sanders Selection Take 1

■9/01 (Tokuma)
・Pharoah Sanders / Live At The East

Let's grab it!!! :)


Lili Haydn's LIGHT BLUE SUN with Pharoah has been rescheduled for August, 19th

Preorder here


Asana 3: Peaceful Heart announced for July 29 2003! Pre-order here
The cover of the forthcoming Asana 3: Peaceful Heart album with Pharoah Sanders


This is a great year for Pharoah fans. June, 10 is the strret date for the Tisziji Munoz CD - DIVINE RADIANCE. Tisziji on elg, Pharoah and Ravi Coltrane on saxes, Paul Shafer on kbds, Don Pate on bass and Rashied Ali on drums. See the upcoming performances site for the details of the 3 appearances of this incredible lin-up in JUNE!

Here I've found the best price for this forthcoming CD

Info form Downtown Music Gallery via Iain


Lili Haydn's LIGHT BLUE SUN with Pharoah has been rescheduled for June, 17th
Attention!!! New Pharoah Sanders album!!!!
PHAROAH SANDERS/GRAHAM HAYNES - With A Heartbeat (Evolver) produced by Laswell, with Laswell, Skopelitis, Trilok Gurtu, Jeff Bova, and Dr. Jean-Louis Zink on 'heartbeats'.

Out: Apr 22, 2003

Tracks listing:

1. Across Time
2. Alankara
3. Gamaka
4. Morning Tale

To pre-order at CD Universe (best price)


The song on the new LILY HAYDN recording featuring Pharoah is called THE PROMISED LAND. It features also George Clinton. The title of the album - LIGHT BLUE SUN (info from Lily Haydn)
Further on - ILLUMINATED AUDIO on Palm Pictures - Interpretations of Gigi. You can listen to a sample of the album with Pharoah on at this site (second track with Pharoah's solo)

What a story!

And...... LILI HAYDN, the beautiful Lili Haydn has just finished her new record for RCA Victor. The record should come out on May 6. It is produced by Bill Laswell and features George Clinton, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Karsh Kale
Check out Lili's website


Next 2 news:
The fothcoming album Asana 3: Peaceful Heart on META RECORDS will probably include track(s) with Pharoah. Check out the META RECORDS site

Reedition of the Theresa album LIVE with one long bonus track in February on Evidence Records
Pharoah on the META COLLECTION release.
Swiss/french magazine VIBRATIONS informs that a new Material (Bill Laswell's project) should be released in August 2003. Among the musicians are Gigi, Pharoah Sanders, Amina Claudine Myers, Hamid Drake and probably Laswell

Also still unconfirmed information about another Kahil el Zabar's Ritual Trio album with Pharoah


After 2 releases from the 60s/70s (olatunji concert on impulse and larry young's "lawrence of newark") next great news -

Leon Thomas -- Spirits Known & Unknown . . . CD . . . Late January, 2002 Wonderful work from Leon Thomas -- easily one of his greatest albums! The record was recorded in 1969, right at the time Leon was working with Pharoah Sanders -- and his days with the spiritual jazz giant shine through brightly on the session. The players include James Spaulding, Lonnie Liston Smith, Cecil McBee, and the enigmatic "Little Rock" (aka Pharoah Sanders!) on tenor. Includes a shorter version of "The Creator Has a Master Plan", than the one that was on Sanders' Karma album; an excellent vocal version of Horace Silver's classic "Song for My Father", with lyrics that we totally love; plus the frenetic dirge "Malcolm's Gone". Other tracks include "Damn Nam" and "Echoes". from Dusty Groove America


New release with pharoah should be out September 1st
Gigi (Ejigayehu Shibabaw - azmari minstrel of Ethiopia) - Gigi

with Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter

CD Palm Pictures 2068

Track list

1. Gud Fella - 5:35
2. Mengedegna - 5:33
3. Tew Ante Sew - 4:20
4. Abay - 5:18
5. Bale Washintu - 5:35
6. Guramayle - 4:27
7. Sew Argeñ - 5:16
8. Aynama - 5:05
9. Kahn - 3:47
10. Zomaye - 4:00
11. Abet Wubet - 4:07
12. Nafekeñ - 5:23
13. Adwa - 5:02


once more about baker release: Baker has completed more than a dozen songs for a solo album, The One That Got Away, which he said would be out in the fall. The record is heavy on collaborations with artists from across the musical spectrum, including Mogwai guitarist/singer Stuart Braithwaite, Primal Scream bassist Mani, former New Order bassist Peter Hook (a.k.a. Hooky), raunchy techno-punk queen Peaches, jazz legend Pharoah Sanders and members of UK power-pop trio Ash. The rhythm section of Roni Size's Reprazent crew, bassist Si John and drummer Rob Merrill play on three tracks. Baker described the songs, all of which he wrote or co-wrote, as quite diverse.
"It's danceable, it's punk, there's a sort of punky jazz thing," he said. "If you like Primal Scream's album [2000's XTRMNTR], Death in Vegas and that kinda stuff, you'll like this."

from this site about baker


my friend Nick Turner told me about the possible edition of ayler/sanders jihad recording from 1968 on son boy records does anybody know something more about that?
Arthur Baker, the legendary producer is still working on his new album (double cd), with the help of Ash, Primal Scream, New Oder, Mogwai and PHAROAH SANDERS. The album should be ready this year but the exact date is not known yet. Info (in german) on the doc rock site

another info about the same story:

Arthur Baker Classics Collection Coming

Arthur Baker, one of the most influential dance-music and hip-hop producers of the 1980s, will release a collection of his classic tracks this summer on Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Records.

Among the influential cuts to be included on the Perfecto compilation, which is as yet untitled, are the seminal single "Planet Rock," a trope of Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" recorded by Afrika Bambaataa + Soul Sonic Force in 1982, Rocker's Revenge's "Walking on Sunshine" and New Order's "Confusion," a 1983 club hit that crossed over to the American R&B chart.

Baker said the compilation will also feature a second disc of his dance mix cuts from the '80s and '90s.

"It's all the stuff I'm known for, really," he said, adding that his music has been featured on a number of compilations, most notably Tommy Boy Records' four-volume 1998 collection The Perfect Beats, but that they were "never sort of mine."

In addition, Baker has completed more than a dozen songs for a solo album, The One That Got Away, which he said would be out in the fall.

The record is heavy on collaborations with artists from across the musical spectrum, including Mogwai guitarist/singer Stuart Braithwaite, Primal Scream bassist Mani, former New Order bassist Peter Hook (a.k.a. Hooky), raunchy techno-punk queen Peaches, jazz legend PHAROAH SANDERS and members of UK power-pop trio Ash. The rhythm section of Roni Size's Reprazent crew, bassist Si John and drummer Rob Merrill play on three tracks.

Baker described the songs, all of which he wrote or co-wrote, as quite diverse. "It's danceable, it's punk, there's a sort of punky jazz thing," he said. "If you like Primal Scream's album [2000's XTRMNTR], Death in Vegas and that kinda stuff, you'll like this."

For the past three years, Baker has focused almost entirely on the new album ó which will be his third solo full-length, following the largely unheralded Merge (1989) and Give in to the Rhythm (1991).

He said he plays bass, harmonica and keyboards on it, in addition to doing all drum programming. Linking the seemingly disparate styles on The One, he said, was "actually, my relationship with my ex-girlfriend," although he rejected the notion that it was any sort of "rock opera."

The album's guest artists overlap in several intriguing combinations, including one track with Braithwaite on guitar, Mani on bass and Hook on another bass part, and a recently recorded track co-written with Adam Snyder ó who played keyboards on Mercury Rev's 1998 LP, Deserter's Songs ó which Baker said would feature Tindersticks singer Stuart Staples on vocals.

Baker's innovative use of electronic instruments and tape edits in hip-hop and his dance-oriented remixes of pop hits, such as Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" and Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," helped pave the way for the development of a variety of future styles. They include the pervasive electro sound of the mid-'80s to the early Detroit techno rhythms of Cybotron and Derrick May.

"Put the Needle to the Record," another Baker cut he said would likely be featured on the collection (recorded in 1987 under the alias Criminal Element Orchestra), is widely considered the first hip-hop collage, having spawned similar "edits" by artists such as Double D & Steinski, Coldcut and Cut Chemist, not to mention the genre of turntablism as a whole. Fresh off a trip to Cuba and back in London, his home for the last five years, Baker has decided to try to do his part to help end the U.S. embargo of Cuba, which he called "outrageous." He said a recent conversation with Moby may lead to a benefit music-event toward that goal, perhaps called Rock the Blockade, although no specific plans have been made. Baker was among the driving forces behind the 1985 collaborative "Sun City" anti-apartheid track and awareness project.


2 more records with Pharoah as a guest: 23 Skidoo, released in June on Virgin and Kahil El Zabar's Ritual Trio - Africa N'Da Blues on Delmark (August) short info about these releases
On the Bubblecore Records page you find the info about Alex Blake record with Pahroah:

The Alex Blake Quintet featuring Pharoah Sanders - "Now Is The Time (Live At The Knitting Factory)" (CD) BC-030 Out October 3. Our first foray into the jazz realm captures the intense energy of a live performance at the Knitting Factory. Alex Blake is easily one of the top five upright bass players ever, having toured with Sun Ra when he was 16, and going on from there to stints with Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Randy Weston, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, and others. Here he is joined by the dream lineup of Pharoah Sanders (sax), John Hicks (piano), Victor Jones (drums), and Neil Clark (percussion).


WARNING!!! This record is on sale now
Check out META Records page

06.13.2000 Meta Records (Adam Rudolph) announces
SPIRITS by Pharoah Sanders/Adam Rudolph/Hamid Drake

Track listing:

1.Sunrise
2.Morning In Soweto
3.The Thousand Petalled Lotus
4.I And Thou
5.Uma Lake
6.Ancient Peoples
7.Calling To The Luminous Beings
8.Roundhouse
9.Molimo
10.Sunset

Personnel: Pharoah Sanders (vocals, tenor saxophone, wood flute, hindehoo); Adam Rudolph (vocals, bamboo flute, congas, djembe, udu drum, talking drum, thumb piano, gong, percussion); Hamid Drake (vocals, drums, tabla, frame drum).

Producers: Pharoah Sanders, Adam Rudolph, Hamid Drake.

Recorded live in 1998. Includes liner notes by Musharef Khan.


Nachdem die holländische Plattenfirma VIA Records schon vor einiger Zeit den Katalog des Kult-Labels ESPdisk erworben hat, erscheinen in den nächsten Monaten gleich 20 CDs aus diesem Fundus. In Planung sind 60 Wiederveröffentlichungen fuer 2000. Alle Titel wurden von den Originalbändern remastered. Umfangreiche Linernotes und ansprechende Verpackung machen die CDs zu Sammlerstücken. Die ersten 10 Titel sind:

Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity (esp 1002)
Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah's First (esp 1003)
New York Art Quartet (esp 1004)
Byron Allen Trio (esp 1005)

Octopus - Octopus (esp 2000)
Cromagnon - Orgasm (esp 2001)

Charlie Parker - Live Performances, Vol. 1 (esp 3000)
Charlie Parker - Live Performances, Vol. 2 (esp 3001)
Billie Holiday - Broadcast Performances 1949 - 52 (esp 3002)
Billie Holiday - Broadcast Performances 1953 - 56 (esp 3003)

For those who don't understand German: VIA Records, the label from Holland, has bought the ESP catalogue.
The items listed above should be reissued very soon.

Another information comes from the Impulse site.
On the site with upcoming releases , 5/16/2000 5 trane reissues are listed,
Among them 2 with pharoah:

John Coltrane Ascension (2 LPs on 1 CD) Impulse (reissue)
John Coltrane Kulu Se Mama Impulse (reissue)

Enjoy

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