Pharoah Sanders (was: Ishmael Reed)

[rich]

sure sanders didn't have that experience while playing w/ Coltrane's band

those live in japan recordings are superb, nipple-hardening superb.
realize its not for everyone but surely Peace on Earth is closest
thing to the divine.
is it denis johnson who wrote about seeing coltrane while tripping and
there was like a wondrous blue light rushing out of his horn. thinking
its in one of the novels but not sure

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
> 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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>> Reed's "coolest guy in the room" isn't saying coolest guy in the world
>> - 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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