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Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Friday Jan 2 (8 & 10pm) Saturday Jan 3 (8 & 10pm) Sunday Jan 4 (2 & 7pm) @ Yoshi's Pharoah Sanders is not the Kangol-clad, cable-knit-sweater-wearing, electric-clarinet kind of jazz musician. A link between Coltrane's free-form experiments and the fusion of the '70s and '80s, he's done more to popularize and legitimate rule-bending dissonance than practically any other living artist (save, perhaps,...
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breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
This week is the most ambitious BoL ever: we feature a classic from Pharoah Sanders, contemporary music from Dutch vocalist Tirjntje Oosterhuis, and an extensive “Amazing Grace” special that features Ernestine, Dirty Dozen Brass, Mica Paris, Walela, Klazz Brothers & Edson Cordeiro, World Saxophone Quartet, Soweto Gospel Choir, Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra, [...]
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breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
By 1970/71, Dr. Sanders’ aural medicinals was the number one prescription recommended by eleven out of ten doctors (one guy voted twice, he must have been from Chicago).
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breath of life (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
Norman Connors demonstrates music doesn’t have to be profound to be deep—here is the soundtrack for the deeptitude of romance.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
As an ice-cold rain fell yesterday in New York, I reached for Welcome to Love, a 1990 album by Pharoah Sanders that I hadn't heard in a few years. The Sphinx-like tenor saxophonist is best known for his spiritual and avant-garde jazz recordings of the 1960s and 1970s, most notably Karma, which includes the dazzling 32-minute-plus The Creator Has a Master Plan. But the album I pulled loose features...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Jazz musicians have showed a sporadic enthusiasm for meditation: experiments by {{John Coltrane = 5851}} (and {{Alice Coltrane = 5848}}), {{Pharoah Sanders = 4045}} and {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}} spring to mind, as does the clarinetist {{Tony Scott = 4170}}'s quixotic Music for Zen Meditation (Verve, 1964)...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
Kahil El'Zabar, a product of Chicago's South Side African-American community, is a true musical renaissance man. By trade, a percussionist who is fluent on conventional Western drums, he has mastered the esoteric and exotic instruments of his ancestors as well. He is a member of Chicago's famed AACM, has played with Dizzy Gillespie and Stevie Wonder, scored for film, arranged for the theater and taught...
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This is London (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
With jazz megastars becoming ever more scarce, featuring two of them in one supergroup was a masterstroke for London Jazz Festival's closing night.
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Bagatellen (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
ESP 1008 Critics in the halcyon days of American free jazz have been rather guilty of oversimplification, and that is nowhere clearer than with the pianists. Either one played “like Cecil” or one didn’t, and that “didn’t” often meant Paul Bley. His approach was perceived to be quieter, more tonally ambiguous, and nearly a free [...]
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The Concert Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
Highlights of this week’s San Francisco Jazz Festival: Dave Brubeck It’s always a special occasion when Concord’s favorite native son returns to the Bay Area. Brubeck has been a household name since 1954, when he became only the second jazz artist (after Louis Armstrong) to make the cover of Time magazine, and he secured his legend in [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
In the middle of Lines Ballet's "The Radius of Convergence," five men form a line that spins and collapses. Brett Conway, the troupe's most eloquent male dancer, peels off in rapturous spools of motion, finally laying his body upon the other men's arms as...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Swedish saxophonist Fredrik Nordström (b. 1974) has been a player garnering much attention over the last few years. As his discography reaches double digits, his sound has consolidated and concentrated into a recognizable tenor approach. Blue is his fifth disc for Moserobie Music and first recording with piano legend Bobo Stenson...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Lines Ballet Artistic Director Alonzo King has collaborated with musicians from Morocco, Japan and the Central African rain forests. But among the most beautiful of King's twisting, twining, otherworldly ballets are the six he's made with jazz great Pharoah...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Jason Crane interviews saxophonist Kenny Garrett about his new CD, Sketches of MD (Mack Ave Records, 2008). This album features the paired saxophones of Garrett and Pharoah Sanders, who’ve performed together many times but never recorded live. Garrett wrote all the tunes on the album, each of...
