Pharoah Sanders

"The Creator Has a Master Plan," which takes up 33 minutes of this album, is simply one of the most wonderful moments in free jazz. With Leon Thomas' amazing vocal and a surging, hypnotically repetitive main motif, it's the pinnacle of late 1960s return-to-earth spirituality. You can get all jazz-dude complicated and try to explain it or you can just listen to the words.

Five years ago the late John Coltrane recorded a highly personal album of religious music --
A Love Supreme. It remains one of the most satisfying experiences in any jazz listener's
collection. Shortly after the album was made Coltrane added to his orchestra a young
protege with a similar approach to the tenor saxophone and to human spirituality, Pharoah
Sanders. Like his former mentor, Sanders believes that there is a beneficent diet... More >