Pharoah Sanders - Live at Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins 1968 vinyl lp
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Pharoah Sanders - Live at Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins July 21, 1968 LP FOX004
Pharoah Sanders: Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins July 21, 1968
Experimental jazz titan Pharoah Sanders made a lasting impact with his unorthodox
approach to tenor saxophone. Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1940, he was
given the nickname Pharoah by grandmother, in reference to the potential regal lineage of his
African heritage. Playing clarinet at church services during his youth, he began playing tenor
sax at high school. In 1959 he moved to Oakland, California, where he played with rhythm
and blues bands and befriended John Coltrane. Moving to New York in 1961, he drifted into
Sun Ra’s Arkestra after experiencing a difficult period of homelessness. His status began to
rise upon joining Coltrane’s band in 1965, where his discordant solos formed a strong
contrast to Trane’s more melodious sound, though each player had a strong impact on the
other’s subsequent work. Following Coltrane’s untimely death in 1967, Sanders formed a
quartet of his own with former Jazz Messengers pianist Lonnie Liston Smith, bassist Norman
‘Sirone’ Jones of the Untraditional Jazz Improvisational Team, and drummer Majeed
Shabazz. For this blistering performance, given at the Antibes Jazz Festival of 1968 and
broadcast on French radio station WDR3, the quartet moves through various Sanders free-
jazz workouts, taking in “Venus” from the Tauhid album and “The Creator Has A Master
Plan” from Karma along the way, with the rhythm section holding down the fort as Sanders
blows himself into the stratosphere.
SIDE A
Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival
SIDE B
Live at the Antibes Jazz Festival
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