Thembi
Label: Impulse!
Format: CD
Genre: Jazz
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Classic spiritual soul jazz from Pharoah Sanders – recorded with an all star
lineup that includes Lonnie Liston Smith, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes, and
Michael White. The album's got a strong influence from the members on
the set – particularly Lonnie Liston Smith, who seems to bring in a very
nicely soulful approach to a few of the numbers, and Michael White,
whose spiritual consciousness is still a bit rough-hewn and personal at
this point. The record oddly shifts mood from track to track – going
from the mellow soul of "Astral Traveling", into the loud free jazz of
"Red Black & Green", to the modal grooving of "Thembi", and into the
spiritual joy of "Love" and "Bailophone Dance" – all of which makes for
a really wonderful album, one of Pharoah's strongest statements of the
time!
Cat. number: IMP 12532
Year: 1998