Sanders, Pharoah - Love In Us All (Vinyl)

Pharoah Sanders - Love In Us All (Vinyl)

Pharoah Sanders was among the most important creative voices of the 20th Century. From his emergence on the New York scene during the early 1960s until his passing, he remained one of the driving forces in jazz. Known for his great breaking style of playing that helped lay the groundwork for spiritual jazz, as well as a particular movement of free jazz - infusing lyrism and melody with overblown, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques - during the same period that he was working with John Coltrane, and then Alice Coltrane, Sanders embarked upon his own career as a band leader, producing a suite of albums across the 1960s and '70s for ESP, Impulse!, Strata-East, and others that remain some of the most celebrated, enduring, and sought-after in the canon of jazz. They are a marvel beyond words and stand entirely on their own. From their first sounding, there is no mistaking them for anything but Pharoah’s music.

Love in Us All was recorded in 1972 but released on the Impulse! label no earlier than 1974. It consists of two extended compositions, “Love Is Everywhere” (which Sanders also recorded that year in a different version for his album Wisdom Through Music) and an homage to John Coltrane, titled “To John”. Both serve as an aural representation of the way Sanders’ music polarized the jazz world at the time.

Tracklisting:

1. Love is Everywhere
2. To John