Pharoah Sanders (was: Ishmael Reed)

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Visited a concert of Pharoah Sanders some years ago. His solos were 
truly mindblowing. With his
combo, however, he wasn't satisfied. Looked down on them, with rage and 
contempt. And indeed,
they were just doing a professional jazz concert job without any real 
enthusiasm for the art. Myself
I loved Mr. Sanders at this moment for his unconditional devotion to art 
with a big a. Here we call
it Kunstreligion (art-religion). Enlightened by Trane once, the man 
won't stop to seek the absolute.

On 15.12.2010 08:41, Michael Bailey wrote:
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> - that'd be, like, oh, Desmond Tutu or Pharoah Sanders...somebody like
> that (Tom Waits?  Thomas Pynchon's in the running too...)
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