Pharoah (album)

Pharoah
Studio album by Pharoah Sanders
Released 1977
Recorded August & September, 1976
Genre Jazz
Length 40:20
Label India Navigation IN 1027
Producer India Navigation Company
Pharoah Sanders chronology
Love in Us All
(1974)Love in Us All1974		 Pharoah
(1977)		 Love Will Find a Way
(1977)Love Will Find a Way1977

Pharoah is an album led by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1976 and released on the India Navigation label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

In his review for AllMusic, John Bush observed "Pharoah Sanders album for the India Navigation label was known alternately as Pharaoh or Harvest Time, sees his vision of the jazz group -- a sonic melange approximating nirvana -- beginning to drift into watery new age muzak. ...Clearly, Pharoah Sanders was losing his way a full ten years after the death of John Coltrane".[2] JazzTimes writer Bill Shoemaker observed "he meanders through Pharoah, sprinkling snippets of melody and soulful utterance like lotus petals. The 20-minute float on a two-chord vamp is one thing, but a vocal number that sounds like a Santana reject, and a finale with the panache of a psychedelic-era rock opus, are just too much".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Pharaoh Sanders

  1. "Harvest Time" - 20:15
  2. "Love Will Find a Way" - 14:31
  3. "Memories of Edith Johnson" - 5:40

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Pharoah Sanders discography accessed January 12, 2015
  2. 1 2 Bush, John. Pharoah – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Shoemaker, B., JazzTimes Review, May 1997
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