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Pharoah Sanders

Moon Child
LP Black $16.67 $22
  • Rare French Recordings from 1989 (with an all-star line-up)
  • First vinyl reissue since 1990
  • Deluxe 180g vinyl edition
  • Black Vinyl Edition Limited to 500 copies, comes with obi strip

Description

Pharoah ‘Farrell’ Sanders (born 1940) is a leading figure in the world of jazz and one of the last living legends with connections to players like Sun Ra and John Coltrane. His tenor saxophone playing has earned him royal status amongst free jazz players, critics and collectors.

Originally Sanders was interested in urban blues music, but his high school teacher exposed him to jazz and this took Farrell in an entirely new direction. Once completing high school Sanders quickly packed his belongings and headed to Oakland, where he got a chance to work with musicians of high caliber such as saxophone players Sonny Simmons and Dewey Redman (who were both later to be major forces in new jazz and free jazz). Soon the young Pharoah would meet John Coltrane and would feel being attracted to the life as a professional musician. By the early sixties...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Moon Child
  • 2 Moon Rays
  • 3 The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  • 4 All Or Nothing At All
  • 5 Soon
  • 6 Moniebah