PHAROAH SANDERS jazz LP IMPULSE “Black Unity” gatefold stereo NM

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Artist:  PHAROAH SANDERS     

Title:  “Black Unity” 

Year:  1972 

Label:   IMPULSE.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is black and red with silver text.  Catalog number is AS-9219.  

Personnel:

Pharoah Sanders – tenor, balapone

Marvin Peterson – trumpet

Carlos Alfredo Garnett – tenor

Joe Bonner – piano

Cecil McBee – bass

Stanley Clarke – bass

Norman Connors – drums

William Hart – drums

Lawrence Killian – congos, talking drum, balapone.   

Condition:  

DISC:  Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade. 

JACKET:  Gatefold jacket is EXCELLENT with nice clean panels.   Seams, spine, and surfaces are excellent, with some minor traces of ring wear.  A bit of minor wear on seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket.    

Includes original vintage factory inner sleeve in top condition.  

Track Listing: 

Side One: 

• Black Unity, Part One 

Side Two:

• Black Unity, Part Two

Review:

“By 1971, Pharoah Sanders had taken the free thing as far as he could and still live with himself. He was investigating new ways to use rhythm -- always his primary concern -- inside his music and more tonally strident ways of involving the front line in extrapolating tonal and harmonic diversions from the melodic framework of his music. To that end, he entered into a more groove-laden arrangement with himself and employed some funkier players to articulate his muse. Along with Cecil McBee and Billy Hart, who were frequent Sanders sidemen, a young Stanley Clarke fills the second bass chair, and Norman Connors fills out the second drum seat. Carlos Garnett accompanies Sanders on tenor, Joe Bonner on piano, and Hannibal Peterson on trumpet. Sanders also added a full-time percussionist in Lawrence Killian. The only cut on the album is "Black Unity," over 37 minutes of pure Afro-blue investigation into the black sounds of Latin music, African music, aborigine music, and Native American music, with a groove that was written into the standard three-chord vamp Sanders used, opening up a world of melodic and tonal possibilities while also bringing a couple of stellar talents to the fore -- Garnett being one of them and Connors being another. The heavy, hypnotic groove and a double-time tempo are controlled by dynamics and the groupings of instruments, signaled by Bonner with his stacked fifths, sevenths, and ninths. This is a solid, moving piece of work that seals the cracks in Sanders' vocabulary. His arrangement and the staggering of solos into the whole are magnificent. Here was Sanders as he saw himself in the mirror, a mass of contradictions, and the embodiments of the full fury and glory of music in one man.” 

(courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.) 

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