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After thirty years of saxophonic transcendence, Pharoah Sanders has finally come to resemble his ancient Egyptian predecessors in appearance. Capped by a cylindrical black hat, with his long white beard flowing majestically onto his purple-span-gled shirt and sporting a nasty pair of shades, Sanders cut a mean figure...
The set got off a promising start when Sanders drove the enthusiastic audience into spasms of appreciation on the first number with high-register screams and bubbly flutter-tongues. Sanders' saxophone sound is unique, which is one of the reasons that he was able to create devastatingly effective soloing style...
Sanders rose from utter obscurity to relative fame when he joined John Coltrane's group in 1965 and began to scandalize and thrill audiences with his cataclysmic solos whose language was not melody but pure sound. Recordings from this period reveal a relentlessly experimental musician who can create fascinating textures...
After Coltrane died in 1967, the majestic aspirations of Sander's music did not decrease, although the scale of his actual artistic achievements certainly did. Sanders won considerable popularity in his own right with albums that appealed to flower children and funkers alike, albums with names like "Karma" and "Evolution...
It was this latest incarnation of Sanders--thesophisticated elder statesman--that one would haveanticipated at the Regattabar. But the spirit ofthe 1970's seemed to resurge while the Sandersgroup was here, and, with the exception of onelovely version of the ballad "It's Easy ToRemember," the entire set consisted of...