PHAROAH SANDERS Thembi (Impulse! AS-9206, US, 1971) £80
Lonnie Liston Smith’s tenure with Pharoah Sanders’ group proved seismic. His experimental playing on electric keyboards on this final effort with the saxophonist provided a cosmic, meditative foil to Sanders’ seething free jazz workouts, creating new tributaries in the nascent spiritual jazz style.
“With Pharoah and I it was very organic – the first time we played together it just worked. I understood that Pharoah was trying to get more sound out of his saxophone and doing things that other people hadn’t done and I was trying to get more sound out of the grand piano. It just all came together, and we didn’t have to rehearse that much. We were all trying to expand the music and we were talking about peace and harmony worldwide. And right now, today, we have the same problems with wars and things like that.
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