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Pharoah Sanders – Thembi
Pharoah Sanders
Thembi
Style: Jazz
Label: Impulse!
Catalog Number: AS-9206
Released: 1971
Lonnie Liston Smith: “’Astral Travelling’ (1971) was the first time I played an Electric Piano! Before that, I only played the Grand Piano. I met Pharoah Sanders in the late sixties, and we were doing this particular record session in a California Studio when I found a strange instrument on the corner, cause you know, they have a lot of instruments there. I asked “What’s that?” and they said it was an Electric Piano! I started playing it and it blew people’s minds! At the time we recorded this music, I was studying Astral projections, so I decided to call it ‘Astral Travelling’. It’s a twelve-bar 21st Century Cosmic Blues… Working with Pharoah was great, he was doing different things with his horn, and me with the piano! And also Leon Thomas on the vocals, for example, on the ‘Karma’ LP (1969) by yodeling. We were all experimenting, wanting to do different things with the instruments!”
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Cult Classic / Free Jazz / Soul-jazz
Tracklist:
A1 Astral Traveling
A2 Red, Black & Green
A3 Thembi
B1 Love
B2 Morning Prayer
B3 Bailophone Dance
Credits:
Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Pharoah Sanders (tracks: A1 to A3, B2, B3)
Bass – Cecil McBee
Bells, Percussion – Pharoah Sanders (tracks: A1 to A3)
Cymbal [Finger], Percussion – Cecil McBee (tracks: A1 to A3)
Drums, Bells, Maracas, Percussion – Clifford Jarvis (tracks: A1 to A3)
Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes], Claves, Percussion – Lonnie Liston Smith (tracks: A1 to A3)
Engineer [Assistant] – Lillian Douma, Tom Flye
Photography By, Design – Philip Melnick
Piano – LL Smith* (tracks: A1 to A3, B2, B3)
Producer – Ed Michel
Producer, Engineer – Bill Szymczyk
Violin, Percussion – Michael White (2) (tracks: A1 to A3)
Written-By – Cecil McBee (tracks: B1), LL Smith* (tracks: A1, B2), Pharoah Sanders (tracks: A2, A3, B2, B3)
