Pharoah Sanders left us on Sep 24 at age 81, out-living most of his peers by decades and leaving behind a most impressive discography. Heavy Ben selects 20 cuts over a 50-year span, but none from a Pharoah Sanders album.
Let it end some kind of way: Pharoah Sanders (1940–2022)
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/let-it-end-some-kind-of-way-pharoah-sanders-1940-2022-by-pierre-crepon
8 page guide to the key records in Sanders's multifaceted career
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/39882/spread/43
Remembering Pharoah Sanders, Who Sought Divinity on Earth
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/pharoah-sanders-obituary/
| Hour one |
| Love Is Everywhere The Gondwana Orchestra feat. Dwight Trible [orig. Pharoah Sanders] - Colors - Gondwana - 2018 |
| Interlude #4 DJ Signify & DJ Mayonnaise (sample from "Thembi" by Pharoah Sanders) - Anticon Presents: Music For The Advancement Of Hip Hop - Anticon, Massmen - 1999 |
| Moussa Berkiyo / Koubaliy Beriah La'Foh Maleem Mahmoud Ghania feat. Pharoah Sanders - The Trance Of Seven Colors - Axiom - 1991 |
| Are We There Yet? Dream Warriors (sample from "Elevation" by Pharoah Sanders) - Subliminal Simulation - EMI - 1994 
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| Perihelion And Aphelion Gary Bartz feat. Pharoah Sanders - Another Earth - Milestone - 1969 |
| Kulu Sé Mama John Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders - Kulu Sé Mama - Impulse! - 1967 |
| Rocket Number Nine Sun Ra And His Arkestra feat. Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold - Sun Ra And His Arkestra feat. Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold (aka. Gods On A Safari) - El Saturn / Superior Viaduct - 1976 / 2017 (rec. 1964) |
| Prince of Peace Galliano [orig. Pharoah Sanders & Leon Thomas] - A Joyful Noise Unto The Creator - Talkin' Loud - 1992 |
| Mystery Of Love Randy Weston [orig. Guy Warren] feat. Pharoah Sanders - Khepera - Verve - 2005 |
| Astral Traveling Pharoah Sanders (Boozoo Bajou Remix) - Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked - Verve - 2005 |
| Dawning 23 Skidoo feat. Pharoah Sanders - 23 Skidoo - Virgin - 2000 |
| Hour two |
| Symphony For Improvisers > Nu Creative Love > What's Not Serious > Infant Happiness Don Cherry feat. Pharoah Sanders - Symphony For Improvisers - Blue Note - 1966 |
| Many Mansions Sonny Sharrock feat. Pharoah Sanders - Ask The Ages - Axiom - 1991 |
| Blue Nile Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders & Joe Henderson - Ptah, The El Daoud - Impulse! - 1970 |
| Hit Me Jah Wobble feat. Pharoah Sanders - Heaven & Earth - Island - 1995 |
| This Is Madness Umar Bin Hassan And Abiodun Oyewole feat. Pharoah Sanders [orig. The Last Poets] - Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool - GRP - 1994 |
| You've Got To Have Freedom Uptown Funk Empire [orig. Pharoah Sanders] - The Empire Strikes Back - Soulab - 2009 |
| Upper Gogypt, Lower Gogypt J Dilla [orig. Pharoah Sanders] - More Donuts - Takara - (rec. ~1996) |
| Coltrane's Brain (The Rebirth) Induce (sample of "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah" by Pharoah Sanders) - Cycle - WonderSound - 2005 |
| The Creator Has A Masterplan The Souljazz Orchestra [orig. Pharoah Sanders & Leon Thomas] - Freedom No Go Die - Funk Manchu, Do Right! - 2006
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Well done! Thoroughly enjoying your take Ben! Thank you!
10:04 AM, October 4th, 2022